Contents:
- BLACK-OWNED GAY BARS ARE DWDLG. CAN THEY SURVIVE COVID?
- HARLEM’S BLACK, GAY BARS ARE THRIVG THE MIDDLE OF A PANMIC
BLACK-OWNED GAY BARS ARE DWDLG. CAN THEY SURVIVE COVID?
When Charl Hugh and Richard Solomon began makg plans 2018 to open their own gay bar New York’s historic Harlem neighborhood, they had no ia a panmic would shut them down before they even opened.
HARLEM’S BLACK, GAY BARS ARE THRIVG THE MIDDLE OF A PANMIC
“The first thg we thought was, ‘Oh, my gosh, we’re gog to be out of bs before we started this bs, ’” Hugh, 39, told NBC a global health crisis is not the only headwd their bar, Lambda Lounge, and the few remag Black-owned gay bars the Uned Stat are facg.
Charl Hugh, left, and Richard Solomon, owners of Lambda Lounge, one of two Black-owned gay bars remag BrandsFor more than two s, gay bars, pecially those owned by people of lor, have been disappearg.