The Village Station (now Station 4) opened 10 years prior to Sue Ellen’s, before briefly closing and returning in 1987. Since January 1989, Sue Ellen’s has been one of only a few lesbian bars in the region, and in June 2021 began welcoming customers back inside after a 15-month hiatus. Currently, there are only 15 lesbian bars open throughout the United States, one of which is Dallas’s own Sue Ellen’s. While one can never truly know another person’s sexuality or gender identity until they disclose it, there are very few spaces that are specifically designated for women within the LGBTQ community. Although many members of the LGBTQ community are eager to return to the places where they feel the most comfortable, some in Dallas say they still haven’t found a space where they really fit in.įor years, queer men have debated whether or not straight women should be allowed to party in their spaces. While iconic establishments like JR’s Bar & Grill, Woody’s, and Cedar Springs Tap House have remained open since last summer, some of the larger gathering spots, like Station 4 or Sue Ellen’s, have only recently reopened. Now, the Strip is finally coming back to life. Often described simply as “the Strip,” the bars that line Cedar Springs sat empty for the vast majority of the past year thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tucked into Dallas between Highland Park and Uptown, the area has been the center of queer life in Dallas for decades. He is acting like the same thing would have happened it everything was the same but he was cisgender and I just don’t think that’s the case.For the past year, the local LGBTQ community has looked forward to the reopening of the city’s favorite dance floors and watering holes in Oak Lawn. He blames everything from looking young to homophobia for some reason, but he doesn’t even want to call himself trans so he won’t call it what it was. Staff in all spaces but especially gay spaces need to be better trained for handeling these situations.Įdit: he won’t admit that this was blatant transphobia. He won’t post about it himself because he doesn’t want to make a scene or out himself but it’s just so frustrating to see this type of discrimination go so unnoticed and stay unnoticed because of how vulnerable his particular community is. This is the type of thing you’d expect from straight bars back home but not here, especially during pride month. Regardless, it really did ruin our one night out. Will note that they did waive his cover charge when they finally did let him in and everyone in the line who saw was so sweet to him inside. It escalated to the point where the cops were involved (don’t know why or what they said) but after waiting in a two hour line, being denied, and waiting another half hour to talk to the manager while the staff misgendered him using they them pronouns instead of male, which he told them to use (anyone who saw him would assume he was a cis man so there is very little explanation for their confusion aside from transphobia) it was hard to enjoy the last hour we got inside before it closed down for the night. They asked him several times to say his old name out loud and he spelled it out letter by letter for him but they told him if he didn’t know his name he couldn’t come inside. The card was found and turned in to the bouncer but when he went to get it they wouldn’t give it back to him because it had old information from before his transition on it. One of the friends that came was a gay man of trans experience who dropped his ID in line for Beaux. This weekend some of my friends and I got an air bnb in the city for one of their 21st birthdays.
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