Apr 09, 2004   | COMMENTS     

urban professionals between ages 25 and 44.

Area women are responding. By the promoters’ estimate, about 275 lesbians, ranging from ages 21 to 60, are turning out to the parties. And the person sitting next to you is as likely to be a college student as an attorney.

Hoping to build on their success, the promoters have begun to expand, selling portrait-sized versions of the tasteful nudes adorning their fliers, and even sponsoring a local boxer. They also plan to feature restaurant and movie reviews on their Web site, www.inhertwined.com.

“We’re trying to be the lesbian portal that you come to if you want to know what’s going on in the Washington D.C. area,’’ Morrow says.

For now, the promoters are planning a masquerade party and a monthly party on Saturday night called Say Yes — both in May. A poetry night may also follow, Tolbert says.

Despite the presence of other upscale promoters — Women In the Life, a popular party series geared toward young, professional black lesbians, and Pink Majik, a monthly Happy Hour for black gay women at a club near Dupont circle — the Inhertwined organizers say they are confident that their clientele will keep coming back for more.

“We’re constantly changing,” Tolbert says, “so we’re always offering something a little bit different.”