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Article: When a gay bar closes its doors forever.(GUEST OPINION)(Essay)
- Article from:
- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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AS THE FINAL LINE of Whitney Houston's I Want to Dance With Somebody faded into the ether of disco lights and carcinogenic party fog, two men managed a furtive glance across the dance floor. A drag queen--some fantastic pastiche of Joan Rivers, Edie Falco, and Rod Stewart--strutted her six-foot frame in four-inch heels and Diamonique earrings to the bar, where a butch-femme duo poured two-dollar drinks for a posse of twenty-something men sporting the newest line of A&F polo shirts. It was, on the surface, a rather average drag night in a rather average gay bar. In reality, Ms. Houston was singing her remixed swan song, the bartenders were pulling their last drinks, and the ...