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Butch/Femme couple at one of Mona Sargent’s nightclubs, circa 1950s.

Mona Sargent owned and operated several lesbian bars in San Francisco throughout the 1940s and 1950s, including Mona’s 440 and Mona’s Candle Light. She is a central figure in Wide Open Town, Nan Alamilla Boyd’s groundbreaking history of queer San Francisco to 1965.