Back in the fall of 2021, longstanding Portland LGBTQ bar Local Lounge was on the verge of closing. Dan Henderson, the owner of Lombard leather bar the Eagle, wanted to try to save Local Lounge before it closed, but he couldn’t find a partner to help keep the bar afloat. So instead, he decided to create something new.
“I said ‘I probably shouldn’t do this, but I should make this change and make things right,’” Henderson says. “So I went for it, not knowing it would take me over a year to create this concept.”
Henderson’s vision resulted in Back 2 Earth, a cosmic, casual queer bar
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