On behalf of Charlie, Hunter, Vince & the entire Eagle LA Family, we thank you for your support during this time of crisis, and for the past 14 years. bar, music, cocktails, dance floor, Updated: 0. Check out their impressive mixology program and seasonal drinks. With your support, we’ll be able to continue to ride this out until we can safely reopen in what is expected to be months from now. This bar is less overtly gay but more queer and cool, the atmosphere makes anyone from the LGBTQ+ community welcome and safe. This is why we are asking for your help to keep Eagle LA from closing permanently.Īll money raised will pay incurred expenses, business loans, utilities and so on. We have lost too many historic venues resulting from this pandemic already, which is changing the face of our community. Those funds are now running out, and the currently proposed COVID relief bill for small business does not go nearly far enough to help the mostly impacted restaurant and bar industry. Although we did receive relief loans at the beginning of the pandemic, we never expected the forced closures to go on this long. In the past six months Talbott Street, long known for its drag shows, closed, as did the 501 Eagle, a bar favored by leather enthusiasts since 1986. Among the casualties: the venerable Varsity, the city's oldest gay bar, dating back to the 1940s. Surviving this devastating financial hardship has been extremely difficult. Since 2015 at least five have closed their doors in Indianapolis, about half the city's total. When COVID hit in March and closed our doors, we hunkered down and did everything possible to stay in business. This historic location has been serving the community for over 53 years with 4 different incarnations: The Shed, The Outcast, Gauntlet II, and now Eagle LA.
Since 2006, Eagle LA has prided itself on being a safe haven for the LGBTQI+ Community to come together and express it’s diversity free from judgment, as well as an open door policy, neighborhood-gathering place. The ask to to save the Eagle LA is as follows: It is over twice the amount that the Redline Bar in DTLA has raised, which is currently under $20,000 since their GoFundMe launched on January 6, 2021. As of the posting of this piece the GoFundMe page has raised well over $46,000 since it launched yesterday.