Nobody's Darling | Chicago, IL
12/20/21 • 39 min
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Nobody's Darling, in Chicago, IL, is a Black-owned, women-owned, and LGBT-owned craft cocktail bar. These are the stories of the humans that run it and the humans that call it a home.
Renauda Riddle and Angela Barnes opened the bar in May, 2021, naming it after the Alice Walker poem, "Be Nobody's Darling." Shirley J has been a part of LGBT nightlife in Chicago since the 1970s, and is now affectionately called 'The Mayor of Nobody's Darling.' And Xavier Sumter planned to leave Chicago...until he started bartending at Nobody's Darling.
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Nobody's Darling, in Chicago, IL, is a Black-owned, women-owned, and LGBT-owned craft cocktail bar. These are the stories of the humans that run it and the humans that call it a home.
Renauda Riddle and Angela Barnes opened the bar in May, 2021, naming it after the Alice Walker poem, "Be Nobody's Darling." Shirley J has been a part of LGBT nightlife in Chicago since the 1970s, and is now affectionately called 'The Mayor of Nobody's Darling.' And Xavier Sumter planned to leave Chicago...until he started bartending at Nobody's Darling.
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Cruising | A Queer Documentary Podcast - Nobody's Darling | Chicago, IL
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SARAH: SHIRLEY J DIDN’T REALIZE SHE WAS GAY UNTIL SHE WENT TO HER FIRST GAY BAR. THIS WAS THE EARLY 1970s, CHICAGO, AND SHIRLEY WAS 30 YEARS OLD.
SHIRLEY: What gave me is the first gay bar was like, Whoa, you know? They're, you know, I was like, made me feel like oh, there are people here that feel the way I was thinking okay.
SARAH: FROM THERE, SHIRLEY BECAME ENGRAINED IN LGBT NIGHTLIFE IN CHICAGO.
SHIRLEY: what appealed to me was that you can be free, you know, you want y
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