Liv Hewson Teams Up With the Lesbian Bar Project In New Fundraising Campaign
Hewson created a one-of-a-kind shirt in collaboration with The Lesbian Bar Project to raise money for lesbian bars throughout the country and abroad.
Featured Image: Photo by Elina Street courtesy of Lesbian Bar Project.
The Lesbian Bar Project has officially partnered up with Yellowjackets star Liv Hewson for a new campaign to give back to lesbian bars in the U.S. and Australia. The award-winning docu-series and initiative’s directors, Erica Rose and Elina Street, dreamed up the campaign with Hewson, designing shirts that say “Ask Me about My Local Lesbian Bar” in Hewson’s handwriting. 20% of the proceeds raised by the shirt sales will be donated to participating US and Australian lesbian bars.
When Rose and Street started the project in 2020, there were only 16 remaining lesbian bars in the US. Today, there are 36. “We have a mutual love of these spaces that helped us become the unabashed, unapologetic, people we are today,” Rose and Street shared in a statement. “But there is still work to be done. We are so grateful to have partnered with Liv Hewson, who really believes in our mission and the project. Liv represents what our queer spaces need, reassurance, support and celebration.”
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In designing this shirt, Hewson hopes that it will get people talking about the lesbian bars that they love. “I hope people do ask each other about their local lesbian bar! I hope people see this shirt and go looking for lesbian bars in their city. I hope people go to the bars together, and I hope more of them open,” they said. “I feel that I carry the queer spaces that have shaped me everywhere I go. This shirt is an extension and a celebration of that.”
There are 25 bars participating in the project’s campaign with Hewson, including New York’s own Boyfriend Co-Op, Henrietta Hudson, The Bush, and Cubbyhole. But the shirt is not just designed for bar trips. The organizers hope the shirt will allow people to carry what their lesbian bar means to them wherever they go.
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“This campaign celebrates how you can wear the shirts both inside your favorite lesbian bar and outside the ‘four walls’ of the bars,” the project’s statement reads. As part of the campaign, Hewson traveled to New York lesbian hot spots for an editorial film photoshoot.
If you want to look as cool as Hewson while supporting the lesbian bars that we call home, visit https://www.lesbianbarproject.com/merch, where the shirts will be on sale through August 10.
