The rehabbed Capitol Theatre should open next April. (Photo: gordonsquare.org.
Cleveland’s gay community got an ego boost from City Hall during yesterday afternoon’s ribbon-cutting for the Capitol Theatre on the West Side. Get this: Even trannies will be welcome in the once-glorious vaudeville and silent-movie house. Popcorn, RuPaul?
In an hour-long dog-and-pony show, Mayor Frank Jackson joined other movers and shakers to break ground on today’s start of rehabbing the theater in the Gordon Square complex near the corner of Detroit Avenue and West 65th Street. The $70 million facelift will help bolster The Great Bearded Bureaucrat’s mission to turn Cleveland into the Las Vegas of the Midwest. …
This article appears in May 14-20, 2008.
“Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & TransgenderED Community Center of Greater Cleveland”?
Soooo, what: The Center is confused in its preferences AND it was born a dude?
How about “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & TRANSGENDER Community Center of Greater Cleveland”? aka ITS PROPER NAME!
Cris: I can’t believe that I couldn’t get a job as a copyeditor at SCENE (and I’m confident it’s only because I’m not douchebag or ball-licker enough), yet in every single article that you’ve written mentioning any venue in the gay community, you’ve esentially spit in our eye with your cluelessness. (BTW: You forgot to say The Center is “gay friendly”, as you’ve designated every single gay bar you’ve written about so far.)
Be that as it may, I hope the 24-hour dream holds up better in this case than it has in the past in neighborhoods that are located on what I call “the wrong side of West 117 Street”. There are at least a couple of places that were pretty popular in their day that stopped 24-hour service because of the level of crime/lack of security in the surrounding areas and the assholism of drunk/high patrons who closed the bars but couldn’t reel it in after hours.