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Conveniently located on W. Fifth Ave in the University District, just seconds away from the Grandview area, Club Columbus provides unlimited possibilities to make your visit enjoyable. Club Columbus is a fully-equipped gay sauna in Columbus's University District. Featuring a large fitness centre, seasonal outdoor pool, and steam room, Club Columbus has everything you need to relax or mingle.

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They also offer an outdoor pool during the warmer seasons. Crowds are a mix of gay and bisexual men of all ages. Read what people in Columbus are saying about their experience with Club Columbus at W 5th Ave - hours, phone number, address and map. Natalie Clifford Barney was born in Dayton on October 31, Natalie, who knew that she was a lesbian by age twelve, lived an outspoken and independent life unusual for a woman of this time period.

Her openness and pride about her sexuality, without shame, was at least one hundred years ahead of its time. She published Some Portrait-Sonnets of Women, a book of love poems to women under her own name in Natalie Clifford Barney moved to Paris, France in where she wrote fiction, verse, essays, drama, epigrams, and several memoirs.

She hosted an infamous literary salon for fifty years where the leading writers and artists of the time gathered.

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In , she formed a group to honor female writers because the French Academy was limited to men. Barney repeatedly sought to advance the rights of women and is considered a top French feminist writer of the 20th century. She was the inspiration for characters in at least twelve books, including Valerie Seymour in the Well of Loneliness. Barney died in and is buried in Paris while her parents are interred in Dayton in Woodland Cemetery.

This block of W. In , the Striebinger Building, at W. Around the corner, at Detroit and W. In , a lesbian bartender at Jack's A Go Go recognized that while Columbus had bars for gay men, it needed one geared toward lesbian clientele. Regulars recall that stepping through the door felt like finally entering a place of true belonging.

Women could dance, "get together," break up, sing karaoke, party with friends, and celebrate birthdays and holidays. Summit Station remained a safe public space, despite ongoing police harassment of its gender non-conforming regulars. A sign posted outside declared: "Ladies Night, Every Night. By the s, Summit Station was considered "the largest women's bar in Columbus.

The bar also sponsored local sports teams as well as the Pacesetters, the longest-running team in the National Women's Football League. Although the Short North Gazette declared Summit Station the city's "longest-standing gay and lesbian bar" in , it was closed by Oral Histories. Historical Markers. Natalie Clifford Barney. Summit Station.