Sundays at Café Tabac - The Podcast
"Sundays at Café Tabac" is both a documentary film and a podcast that explores the legendary lesbian nightlife scene at the New York City club, Café Tabac, from 1993 to 1995. The podcast, co-hosted by LGBTQ+ nightlife icon Wanda Acosta and Karen Song, features personal coming-out stories and reflections from the community that frequented the club. It highlights the club's significance as a space of refuge, self-expression, and cultural impact during a time of social change and the AIDS crisis.
- Update frequency
- every 51 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
Episode 4: Journalist/Activist, Linda Villarosa
Linda Villarosa is an award-winning author, journalist, educator and activist, she is a contributing writer and editor for the New York Times Magazine, the NYT at large and its Science Times, where s…
Episode 3: Filmmaker, Karen Song
KAREN SONG is the director and producer of the Sundays at Café Tabac documentary, where she is able to pay homage to a space and community central to her coming of age. She is a queer-identified, Kor…
Episode 2: Award-winning writer, Jacqueline Woodson
JACQUELINE WOODSON, is a writer of books for children and young adults, and the recipient of the National Book Award for her 2014 book, Brown Girl Dreaming. She was awarded National Ambassador for Yo…
Episode 1: Lesbian nightlife icon, Wanda Acosta
WANDA ACOSTA, producer & co-creator of the documentary film, Sundays at Café Tabac, and a stalwart icon in lesbian nightlife in downtown New York, recounts her coming out story as a young woman in th…