I have to say the worst gay bar in Philadelphia is Sisters.

I have to get this off my chest -- Here are my reasons:

• Does this place even like lesbians? They're not nice to lesbians and they sure as hell make it impossible to like this place. The whole atmosphere is depressing.

• Most of the staff are rude (most not all).

• They almost always charge a cover...and you get in there and there's only six people at the bar and no one upstairs. No other gay bar charges a cover except them. Pure is a private club so I'm not including them.

• Thursday Nights: the only busy night here. You get ten free drink tickets for a ten dollar cover. The place is so packed it takes 25 minutes to order drinks and 15 minutes for them to make the drinks. When you want to order more than one drink at a time they tell you you have to be with the other person when ordering -- it's the law. (However, I can order a round of drinks all by myself on any other night and no one says balls to me about the law.) The drink special ends at 11 and I've still got 8 drink tickets left that I can't use again. Why not just give two or three drink tickets instead of 10? It would be more honest and seem like less of a scam.

• When Chelsea Clinton made her stop at Sisters, some of the staff was trying to get in and the woman at the door would not let them in without paying a cover!! We were standing right behind her and she was showing all her credentials needed to prove she was part of the campaign staff going around with Chelsea, and still they wanted their cover charge.

• We went last night and six men in their 40's wanted to get in but they didn't want to pay a cover. It was 11:58 PM and there would be no cover in 2 minutes. The girl at the door wouldn't let them in without a cover until midnight, saying to them "If you don't like it you can go somewhere else". The guys left. I said to her, "you know, they probably would have spent at least 50 bucks in there on drinks and you just lost that business because you wanted 36 dollars for their cover charge -- now you have nothing". We wait two minutes and go in for free. We ask the door woman to have the manager come down, we'd like to talk to her. Denise (Hi Denise) comes over ready for a fight. We honestly weren't trying to make trouble with her so I don't know why she was so agressive. We ask her why there's a cover tonight, she starts spewing a canned response, not letting us get a word in edgewise -- and I mean we seriously couldn't interject anywhere in the conversation. She says she can't do anything about how things are, it's all up to the owner. She's obviously heard it all before and doesn't have time to discuss it anymore with all the 6 people in the bar. We try to tell her the door woman just told a potential customer to screw off, she says she'll take care of it and continues on with her canned response. We get it, you don't care about making the only lesbian bar in Philadelphia a better place where people might like to hang out. We give up, finish our drinks and leave.

• Another lesbian (who used to bartend at another gayborhood bar) summed up sisters pretty well for me: "Sisters! God I never go there anymore, that place will make me suck dick again!"

Is there anything that can be done about this debacle? It's a shame because I really want to like this place or feel connected to other lesbians in some way but this place is so depressing.