Eve's Hangout

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Eve's Hangout
Eve Adams' Tearoom
Map
Address129 MacDougal Street
Manhattan, New York City
OwnerEva Kotchever
TypeSpeakeasy, Lesbian bar, Tearoom
Opened1925
Years active2

Eve's Hangout was a New York City lesbian nightclub established by Eva Kotchever in Greenwich Village in 1925. It was also known as "Eve Adams' Tearoom",[1] a provocative pun between "Eve" and Adam". Kotchever (born Chawa Zloczower) was also known as Eve Addams.

History

Located at 129 MacDougal Street, the venue had a sign that read "Men are admitted, but not welcome."[2][3] By the 1920s, Greenwich Village had become an important area for the gay and lesbian community.[4][5] Eve's Hangout became a popular after-theater club, especially with artists.[6]

Closure

In 1926, Kotchever was arrested and convicted of "obscenity" and "disorderly conduct" for authoring Lesbian Love, a book of short stories,[7] forcing the closure of Eve's Hangout. In 1927 she was deported to Poland.[6][a]

Legacy

Eve's Hangout has become an LGBT historic place. It is considered one the first lesbian bars in the United States and is recognized as a New York City heritage,[1] as well as by the National Park Service.[10]

Playwright Barbara Kahn wrote a play and musical, "The Spring and Fall of Eve Adams" and "Unreachable Eden", about Eve's Hangout.[11][12][13]

Today, the location is an Italian restaurant and jazz club named La Lanterna di Vittorio.[14]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Eva Kotchever was arrested in Nice by the French police and Nazis in 1943, just before she was scheduled to join her family in Palestine. She was murdered in Auschwitz.[8] The city of Paris paid tribute to Kotchever by naming a school and street after her.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Eve Adams' Tearoom". NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.
  2. ^ Wallace, Kreg (May 28, 2011). "Eve's Hangout". Lost Womyn's Space. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Shownotes: Eve's Tearoom Part 1". Queer Ephemera.
  4. ^ Chauncey, George (June 26, 1994). "A Gay World, Vibrant and Forgotten". The New York Times. Section 4. p. 17. Retrieved 11 March 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. ^ Hampshire, Audrey (May 2008). "The Lavendar Lens: Lesbianism in the United States 1870-1969". Nonviolent Social Change. 35. Manchester College. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  6. ^ a b Gattuso, Reina (September 3, 2019). "The Founder of America's Earliest Lesbian Bar Was Deported for Obscenity". Atlas Obscura.
  7. ^ "The History of Gay Bars -- New York Magazine - Nymag". New York Magazine.
  8. ^ "Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database -- EVA ZLOCZOWER". secure.ushmm.org.
  9. ^ "Ecole polyvalente Eva Kotchever". www.paris.fr.
  10. ^ "LGBTQ America" (PDF). www.nps.gov. 2016. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  11. ^ Manfre, Katelyn. "Lesbian Tearoom Before Its Time". The Forward.
  12. ^ "All About Eve (Adams)". jewishweek.timesofisrael.com.
  13. ^ "At 129 MacDougal, circa 1926, lesbian tearoom ruled". The Villager. April 20, 2010.
  14. ^ Miller, Tom (August 2, 2010). "Daytonian in Manhattan: "Men Are Admitted, But Not Welcome" -- 129 MacDougal Street".
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