The neighborhood bar on the corner Balmoral and Ravenswood used to be Joie De Vine, a lesbian wine bar that closed during the pandemic. I think we knew that queer women would be like ‘this is awesome,’ but we’ve had such great response from straight people in the neighborhood, the trans community, gay men I mean it’s really been kind off this amazing space for people to come together and have mutual respect for each other,” said co-owner Angela Barnes. “I don’t think we quite anticipated the response.