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Photo by John Barrington Bayley. In DecemberMartha and William Leaver took over the failing restaurant and liquor license of the Heights Supper Club, which had been operating at 80 Montague Street since While the old restaurant had relied on a straight clientele, the new owners decided to appeal to the growing number of gay men who lived in Brooklyn Heights or visited to participate in its active gay scene, which included a number of well-known cruising places notably the Promenade and several popular mixed bars that permitted a certain amount of same sex cruising.

The Heights Supper Club appears to have been one of the first bars in Brooklyn to have catered to a gay male clientele. The club soon drew complaints from straight Brooklyn Heights residents and became the target of police undercover operations. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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