Like many gay bars outside of big cities, it was a place where people who would never deign to cross paths in the larger world could find a home for themselves. It wasn’t just a Christmas party, but also a birthday party for Robert LeCompte, the Drama Club’s beloved bartender and manager. From the plaster walls painted to look like brick to the lights clamped on black pipes overhead, the place had an improvised, high-school-theater feel to it, and the gay men, lesbians, and friends who danced and smoked there that night were especially close and relaxed.Ĭhristmas, and its attendant family time, can be complicated for gays and lesbians in the South, and people were happy for an excuse to get out of the house. ![]() ![]() On Christmas Eve 2009, the disco ball at the Drama Club spun over a packed house.
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