The Black and queer-owned bar is led by Renauda Riddle and Angela Barnes, who opened Nobody’s Darling to provide a service quickly diminishing across the country: a safe space for LGBTQ people that focuses on queer women. ANDERSONVILLE - When Andersonville’s Joie De Vine closed during the pandemic, Chicago lost one of its only lesbian bars.īut the new business that’s taken over the space is ensuring Andersonville still will be home to a queer-owned, LGBTQ-friendly hangout especially for women.
