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Inside 20 Rue Jacob, Salt Lake City’s 1980s lesbian bookstore

The bookstore and coffee shop opened in 1979 and quickly became a key gathering spot.

(Photo courtesy Abby Maestas) Four women help put up a sign at 20 Rue Jacob, a lesbian bookstore located at 200 East and 800 South, as it opened in Salt Lake City in 1979. The Rue, as it affectionately became known, was a women's-only space — part of the movement for feminist separatism from men that emerged around the time.

(Photo courtesy Abby Maestas) Four women help put up a sign at 20 Rue Jacob, a lesbian bookstore located at 200 East and 800 South, as it opened in Salt Lake City in 1979. The Rue, as it affectionately became known, was a women's-only space — part of the movement for feminist separatism from men that emerged around the time.