Gay bar makeovers to appeal to straight dollars?
”Oh. My. God. Before is all like gay, gay, gay. Now would you believe? Our audience is all straight people. Couples!”
Isanoel Pinson, who performs at a gay bar, Mad Myrna’s, in Anchorage Alaska, regarding the changing face of paying patrons at formerly all-gay nightclubs. (Anchorage Daily News)
”You can always tell the straight people, because they’re the ones who come on time.”
Scott Koeller, who appears in drag as Daphne DoAll LaChores at Myrna’s. The Anchorage Daily News article in which he’s quoted alleges that a nationwide phenomenon has hit gay bars where gay patrons are declining in numbers and that the bars are trying to appeal to heterosexuals in order to stay in business. (Anchorage Daily News)
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