At 2210 Summit Street, Summit Station became one of Ohio's longest-running lesbian bars after a lesbian bartender at Jack's A Go Go recognized in 1970 that while Columbus had bars for gay men, it needed one geared toward lesbian clientele. Known over time as Jack's, Logan's Off Broadway, and Summit Station, it welcomed women from small towns, women working in trades, women of color, butch/femme lesbians, and transgender people. Regulars remembered it as a place of true belonging where women could dance, get together, break up, sing karaoke, party with friends, and celebrate birthdays and holidays. It remained a safe public space despite ongoing police harassment of its gender non-conforming regulars, and a sign outside declared, "Ladies Night. Every Night. Men $5." By the 1980s, it was considered the largest women's bar in Columbus and regularly hosted lesbian musicians, comedians, DJs, an all female dance troupe, dart and billiards leagues, and drag king and dyke queen performers. It also supported its community by holding benefits for the Children's Hospital FACES program, which aided women and children affected by HIV, as well as for Buckeye Regional (BRAVO), Stonewall Union, Anti-Violence Organization, and the Columbus AIDS Task Force, and it sponsored local sports teams and the Pacesetters, the longest-running team in the National Women's Football League. Though the Short North Gazette called it the city's longest-standing gay and lesbian bar in 2007, it had closed by 2008, ending nearly forty years as a welcoming space for Columbus's LGBTQ community.
