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LAS VEGAS: GAY NIGHTCLUB TO OPEN BALLY’S
A new gay nightclub and a recently released TV mercial are among the latt ditors that Las Vegas ntu to wele LGBT visors. * gay nightclub bally's *
A new gay nightclub and a recently released TV mercial are among the latt ditors that Las Vegas ntu to wele LGBT visors. Liaison, the latt visn om nightclub imprar Victor Drai, is to lnch June 20 at Bally’s, markg the first time an exclively gay club has opened si a rort on the Strip.
“I thk ’s time, or possibly even past time, ” said Robert Peraza, the outreach ordator for the Gay and Lbian Communy Center of Southern Nevada. “It is a ltle b surprisg, pecially given the amount of rourc many of the Strip properti vote toward diversy hirg and also toward their marketg to the LGBT muny, ” he a statement, Eduardo Cordova, Liaison’s creative director, said, “The importance of havg a gay nightclub a major hotel-so on the Strip is huge.
THE HISTORY OF GAY NIGHTLIFE NEW YORK CY
Victor Drai, the nightlife gu behd Drai’s at The Cromwell, opened the first gay nightclub si a so last June. Once the rort opened, he nverted the club to a gay club, an historic moment for the LGBT muny.
"It’s really hard to believe that this is the first gay nightclub si a so on the Las Vegas Strip, " Drai said a prs statement before the openg.
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