{"id":308142,"date":"2026-10-16T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308142\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:50:07","slug":"marshas-philadelphias-1st-womens-sports-bar-to-close-for-good-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308142\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsha&#8217;s, Philadelphia&#8217;s 1st women&#8217;s sports bar, to close for good this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marsha&#8217;s, Philadelphia&#8217;s first women&#8217;s sports bar, is closing its doors for good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Owner Chivonn Anderson said the bar will be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday and encouraged patrons to come for &#8220;one last hurrah&#8221; before she shuts it down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have loved serving this community, and still believe that more than ever this city needs more women\/queer\/BIPOC- owned businesses. We sincerely hope that someone is able to step up and fill this void,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DehsljXmOmL\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;cplk=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==&amp;srtk=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the post says<\/a> in part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/marshas-queer-womens-sports-bar-south-street\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marsha&#8217;s<\/a> officially opened its doors on South Street in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Anderson said the bar would highlight women&#8217;s sports with a Philly twist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a women-focused sports bar,&#8221; Anderson said. &#8220;Where we also highlight local sports because you can&#8217;t have a sports bar in Philly and not show the Birds or the Phils.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bar is named for Marsha P. Johnson, a key figure in the Stonewall uprising of 1969 and the gay rights movement.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marsha&#8217;s, Philadelphia&#8217;s first women&#8217;s sports bar, is closing its doors for good.\u00a0 Owner Chivonn Anderson said the bar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,2918],"class_list":["post-308142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}