Post by Logan on May 3, 2016 6:14:08 GMT -6
History project strives to empower Southwest Virginia LGBT community
Gregory Rosenthal read from a 1978 bar review that Nite & Day was the kind of establishment that had no disco, no dancing and a “Georgetown atmosphere.”
“Basically, it was the kind of place where white, professional gay men came to sit and have a drink. Very bourgeois,” he said.
“So what it is now,” one woman responded jokingly.
A crowd of about a dozen people gathered outside Lucky on Kirk Avenue in downtown Roanoke on Friday night, while people from inside the sophisticated bar curiously stared out at them. Three decades ago, the location was a popular gay bar, although that was short-lived.
“Let’s go in and queer it up!” Rosenthal, 33, declared to cheers. The enthusiasm fell flat once they learned the bar was too full and the hostess turned them away.
Read more: www.roanoke.com/life/history-project-strives-to-empower-southwest-virginia-lgbt-community/article_dedd2897-7d73-5c25-b0c8-bde089c4efe6.html
Gregory Rosenthal read from a 1978 bar review that Nite & Day was the kind of establishment that had no disco, no dancing and a “Georgetown atmosphere.”
“Basically, it was the kind of place where white, professional gay men came to sit and have a drink. Very bourgeois,” he said.
“So what it is now,” one woman responded jokingly.
A crowd of about a dozen people gathered outside Lucky on Kirk Avenue in downtown Roanoke on Friday night, while people from inside the sophisticated bar curiously stared out at them. Three decades ago, the location was a popular gay bar, although that was short-lived.
“Let’s go in and queer it up!” Rosenthal, 33, declared to cheers. The enthusiasm fell flat once they learned the bar was too full and the hostess turned them away.
Read more: www.roanoke.com/life/history-project-strives-to-empower-southwest-virginia-lgbt-community/article_dedd2897-7d73-5c25-b0c8-bde089c4efe6.html