The Garn Las Vegas grows to gay nightlife hot spot | Las Vegas Review-Journal

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• EDUARDO CORDOVA GROWS THE GARN TO GAY NIGHTLIFE HOT SPOT
• THE NEW GAY BAR WH A GARN SETTG THE ARTS DISTRICT DEBUTS MARCH

EDUARDO CORDOVA GROWS THE GARN TO GAY NIGHTLIFE HOT SPOT

The Garn, the new gay bar om Eduardo Cordova the Arts District, planned to open on March 20. • A New Gay Bar Promis Bnch and More the Arts District [ELV]. Sce openg a year ago the Arts District, The Garn Las Vegas has bee one of the hottt gay bars the cy — Cher has even dropped by.

“We’re seeg lol people g out who are not necsarily a part of the gay muny, ” says Co Montre, a veteran drag queen, former Miss Gay Ameri and “RuPl’s DragRace” nttant who performs at The Garn. “For me, ’s creatg a gayborhood wh the neighborhood, ” he explas. For s, Las Vegas’ gay nightlife scene has largely been synonymo wh a grty stretch of Paradise Avenue and Napl Drive lloquially known as the “F Loop, ” a qutnably tled mi-district checkered wh semal clubs of the past and prent like FreeZone, Piranha Nightclub and Gipsy.

While those spots have played an important, endurg role the cy’s gay muny — even if, like Gipsy, they no longer exist — Cordova has aspired for somethg different, somethg a b more mastream. Sce relotg to Vegas om his native Arizona 2008 and immersg himself the lol gay scene, he sought to brg gay nightlife to the Strip and then other parts of town where had ltle prence prevly. “I felt like we need a space that’s the middle and center of everythg, ” he explas, “bee the old gay ncepts were the dark and hidn om the mastream.

THE NEW GAY BAR WH A GARN SETTG THE ARTS DISTRICT DEBUTS MARCH

And so Cordova lnched the “Closet Sundays” gay night at Cathoe at Luxor over a ago, the first of s kd on the Strip, before beg reced by Light Group to do the same at Revolutn at The Mirage. From there, he’d work wh Bare Pool, Share Nightclub and Victor Drai’s Liaison Nightclub at Bally’s, the first gay nightclub a so on the Strip.