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The production crew performs opening numbers that range from the best of Broadway show tunes all the way through to current top 40 hits. Aside from the dazzling impersonators, the shows also feature a top-notch production crew. Each week the audience can expect a trip into a world of glamour, beauty, and entertainment. Located in the rear of the facility, 701 offers guests one of Little Rocks hottest Drag Shows. It had been handed over to the drag queens for their shows:ħ01 backstreet is also an 18 and up venue. But the former Miss Kitty's had apparently been converted into "Le Bistro"-a "place to play pool" and "hang out with friends."Īs for Room 701 (now called Club 701), well, it no longer existed as a lesbian bar. Room 501 was still a dance space for the 18-and-over crowd. But the spaces are reconfigured differently. We still have the same three-bars-in-one thing going at Backstreet too. It still exists! As does Discovery! We're also provided an address for Backstreet-1021 Jessie Road.
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Skip forward more than a decade, and lo and behold, we find a 2009 article on the Backstreet Dance Club. We're not told much more about this mysterious lesbian bar "under street number 701" other than that it was apparently relatively "quiet." A room bearing the street number 501 is a "dance hall" where a disc jockey spins CDs Miss Kitty's Country-Western Saloon has country music playing at background levels "so people can go and sit and talk," Gale said and the door under street number 701 leads to a lesbian bar. As far as bar designs go, Backstreet was rather unusual:īackstreet is broken up inside into three distinct rooms around a lobby-decorated to look like a street in a Western frontier town. Mostly dudes, I assume.īackstreet, on the other hand, was open seven days a week and had a "mostly gay" clientele. According to Bob Gale who managed both clubs, the clientele at Discovery broke into about a 60/40 gay/straight split. We're only told (in a rather conspiratorial aside) that it was a "private club operating at the end of a commercial building between a hilly residential neighborhood and the Arkansas River."ĭespite their "companion" status, the clubs functioned as "separate entities" that were open at different times and with very divergent personalities and clientele.ĭiscovery was a "deafening" dance bar featuring "earthquake speakers" and a "light show." It featured female impersonators or male strippers on a weekly basis, but was open only on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. No real address was given-even in the mid 1990s. I found the story in the Blytheville Courier News, where it was published on July 24 of that year.īackstreet, along with its "companion club" called Discovery, operated out of the same "warehouse-like structure" in the City of Little Rock.
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Club now closed.īack in the summer of 1995, the Associated Press picked up a story on the "gay entertainment scene" in the state of Arkansas. Though club as a whole was open at least as late as 2009, the "lesbian bar" was gone by then. Location: "A private club operating at the end of a commercial building between a hilly residential neighborhood and the Arkansas River," Little Rock, Arkansas, USAĬlosed: "Lesbian bar" open as of 1995.