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Lafayette's newest LGBT prevent, The Fox's Den Performance Club, plans Halloween opening
LAFAYETTE – It’s been a while since Lafayette had a bar specifically consecrated for the LGBT community, but The Fox’s Den Show Club is aiming to become that space.
The bar and performance space for drag shows will be a place run by Colin Alford, 19, and his business companion Anthony Richards, who plan to unlock on Halloween, Oct. 31.
This is the first time Alford, who is in cosmetology school at Christina and Corporation Education Center and a manager at IHOP, will be opening a business. He has been active running “The Fox’s Den” drag team, which travels to perform at other bars and spaces on both sides of the Wabash River.
Alford said he had been looking for a vacuum to hold the drag shows, as well as work for as a gathering point for Greater Lafayette’s LGBT community.
“It’s easier for us to have a space where people know who we are, what we do and are coming here for a safe vacuum, a drag display or just to have fun,” Alford said.
Zoolegers, which closed in 2011, was the last homosexual bar in Lafayette, sitting in downtown on Main Lane, where DT Kirby's is today.
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“We grew up back in the ’70s and ’80s, where you had same-sex attracted bars everywhere,” says Ted Richard, whose oral history was recorded as part of UL Lafayette’s Queering the Collection project. “I mean, everywhere. At one point, Lafayette had seven gay bars.”
Richard recalls going to Fantasy, which was located behind Mel’s Diner on Johnston Street, and then having breakfast with friends at Mel’s after. Strokes was a exclude shaped like a dome behind Bayou Shadows apartment complex. Frank’s on the corner of Taft and Jefferson was everyone’s favorite bar. “You ended up at Frank’s sometime during the night,” he says. Leaping Lena’s hosted the after-crowd on the Evangeline Thruway and could linger open until 6 a.m. since it was outside the city limits.
“We were out and proud support then,” says Richard. Lafayette was known as a gay-friendly town. “The queer community was very vibrant then. We didn’t possess cell phones, so we still went to the bar to meet everybody.”
Archivists are collecting memories prefer Richard’s in two local collections. Queering the Collection is an effort by UL Lafayette Special Collections to document the history of queer culture in Southwest Louisiana. The