Q Lounge Closing for Good?

Executive Director of PhillyGayCalendar

In a piece of local news that has our Facebook friends racing to make Zsa-Zsa Gabor comparisons, it seems that Q Lounge is closing again. Again.

You might remember Q Lounge, located at the gates of the Gayborhood on the corner of 13th and Locust, from its former incarnation, the slyly cocaine-referencing “Bump Lounge,” or “Glo-Bar” before that. With regards to Bump’s closing,  this 2009 article from the PGN states that the Weiss brothers “decided to sell the [Bump] so they can devote more time to running Woody’s, which they bought from Bill Wood in November 2006.” Earlier this year, there were rumors of Q Lounge being sold yet again, but that sale didn’t materialize.

So what gives this time? Some speculate that a rift over excessive noise is the culprit. The alleged complainant is the Independent Hotel, which sits above the bar.

When reached for comment, a representative of the Independent Hotel asserted that each time the Independent alerted Q Lounge to a noise issue it always resolved immediately, but points out that when Brittany Lynn wrote this column in March insisting that “Q LOUNGE IS REMAINING OPEN,” the owner of the building had already served the bar its eviction notice.

We at PGC are big fans of the lounge, and of manager John Caputo, who you may remember from last summer’s Ice Cream Truck parody and this interview conducted for our site, and we welcome the opportunity to hear his side of the story. We’re also fans of bartender extraordinaire and host of Queenbitch Mondays, Luke Dow, as well as all the employees and performers of Q Lounge. We hope everyone lands on their feet and that the space at Locust and 13th can once and for all become the little gay bar that could.

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