Gay bar west palm beach

In the meantime, here are five things to know about Roosters:. When H. Roosters opened inPalm Beach County was populated with several other gay bars, which served a key role as community centers at a time when homosexuality was less widely accepted. Now, as Roosters palm A. Wasson told The Palm Beach Post inthose original bars are gone.

Several newer gay bars operate throughout the area. Its staff in helped organize the county's first Gay Pride festival, held at Howard Park. It was a rare distinction. Some two months later, a fire erupted in the building at Belvedere Road, ignited by oily rags that had been used to sand benches, destroying the entire interior except the bar.

Roosters has been a landmark, if you will, in this city on behalf of the LGBTQ community, and I think that this is something we should certainly bar as a city to keep that building up and running and for what it stands for. Reach him at amarra pbpost. This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: H.

Roosters, historic West Palm gay bar, reopens 5 years after fire. Sign out. Return to Homepage. A bartender serves drinks at the reopening beach of H. Roosters in Gay Palm Beach on May Ribbon for cutting at the reopening ceremony of H. General Manager David Hazen stands outside the kitchen where the fire appeared to have started which heavily damaged H.

A fire broke out just after a. Rooster's owner, A. Wasson, said that he had lapsed on paying liability insurance for the building in order to keep paying his employees while the bar was west due to state and local coronavirus restrictions.

Gay bar in West Palm Beach seeking historic designation

The fire was ruled accidental. More in U. Patrons pack the dining tables and bar at the reopening ceremony of H. Roosters in West Palm Beach, Fla. The opening marks five years to the day that a fire destroyed the designated historic site. Solve the daily Crossword 27, people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?