SUSAN MUSSELWHITE, the owner of My Sisters’ Room, recently announced that the lesbian bar’s new location is secured at 1271 Glenwood Avenue in the East Atlanta Village.
Musselwhite held a party at Stage Door in Tucker on March 2 to announce that the bar would reopen, and she signed the lease on the new location on March 5. She says that she is most excited about the neighborhood and its community of surrounding businesses.
“Mary’s is three doors down,” she says. “[And] a couple new places are popping up around us. Everybody’s going to be able to come here, have dinner, barhop. I’m just thrilled to be down there.”
Musselwhite wants a similar feel to her old Decatur location.
“I think that being comfortable and feeling like home was what people wanted,” she says.
A party at Stage Door on April 6 is scheduled to benefit the reopening. Musselwhite hopes to open the doors at the new location by early June. Expect a solid date announcement once the liquor license is issued.
PHILIP BOONE, the owner of Traxx Atlanta, and Melissa Scott, promoter for Traxx Girls, recently announced the opening of another new lounge, Attraxxions at 393 Marietta St.
Boone describes Attraxxions as a small venue with a full menu during the day and a lounge/club atmosphere at night, featuring another option for women in Atlanta, lesbian night on Saturdays.
Scott says Attraxxions has “a more mature atmosphere,” and she and Boone are excited about its downtown location and patio space.
Traxx Girls holds its one-year anniversary party at Club Miami on April 13, with Da Brat performing. The following day sees the grand opening of Attraxxions, with an after party at the weekly gay and lesbian party Traxx at Atlanta Live.
Like Musselwhite, Andrea Fox and her business partner Leah Lanier hope to open yet another lesbian club for Atlanta’s women in early June. Their liquor license is pending, and the bar, Six Degrees, is likely to be located at the corner of 12th Street and Park Place in Midtown, though the lease is not yet signed.
Fox says her bar is intended to fill a much-needed niche.
“Our community’s needed it here in Midtown for longer than I can say,” Fox says. “It’s just nice to have a place for the women and girls to go that’s in town and suited to us.”
Another new lesbian bar, Paris Decatur, is scheduled to open April 21. See www.sovo.com for previous coverage.
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