Gay bars downtown orlando fl

Miniver was her actual first name but she went by her middle call, Sue. All the way back in 1983 the girl known to most as Sue Hanna opened Orlando’s first lesbian bar called Faces.

Faces was situated in the Lee Rd.-Edgewater Dr. area just a stone’s throw from the currently operating Hank’s. Sue would later open a much larger, multi-level, multi-bar entertainment complex acknowledged as Key Largo which was situated way up the Orange Blossom Route just south of Apopka. Both of Sue’s bars operated primarily as gathering spots for gender non-conforming women. For years men were routinely barred from entering Faces while Key Largo provided a more welcoming room for all members of Orlando’s burgeoning gay community. Actor-producer David Lee as well as Theater Downtown proprietor Frank Hilgenberg presented many fully produced shows in the barn-shaped Key Largo.

I possess many fond memories connected with both of Sue’s spaces — neither of which are active today — and it strikes me how few people who currently savor mingling with a healthy mix of persons represented by every letter of the LGBTQ+ moniker — at one of the very few remaining specifically gay bars remaining in town — have no information of so