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But it’s not like you’re making so much money from your investment. The hard part was that I learned so many things after I shot the interviews. Go make your film.” 

So, I used the $500 for transportation and to feed my crew. I kind of forgot about it while I was filming. You don’t have as much of a roadmap, you probably didn’t know gay adults when you were younger.

Right, and that’s part of why Stutz was so important to them, too.

I kept going through ideas of things I wanted to do and I was thinking of things that were interesting to me.

They gave us $500 in grant money from the school, and then they gave you equipment and insurance for the equipment and were like, “Okay. The city remains the owner of the property to this day.

Today, Stutz is remembered by its customer base as “the best,” said Susan Pinchiaroli, creator of a documentary about the bar.

“It was the only gay bar.

It could have opened when you were twenty and you could still be going into your thirties.

What were you most surprised by as you dug into this story?

I was most surprised by Regina’s generosity to the community. I remember it being open when I was a kid, and then it kind of closed. It’s kind of crazy that back then, even though it was a time where there was nowhere else to go—it was kind of sad to me that the community, when I was filming [the documentary], didn’t have that.

I thought that could be a cool idea, so I tried to find the Facebook page for the bar, B Lounge. He told me about B Lounge, and then he told me about Stutz, which is what B Lounge was sort of made in memory of. And I was there with my parents, which was nice.

Basically, I think it was the first phone call. I don’t think I understood it before I did this film.

I was envious the whole time. The name signified what Stutz provided the community: a lively, high-end club. That’s where they went that was their house.”

Regina David, Stutz owner

Pinchiaroli’s film, Stutz Bar, tells the story of the most prominent LGBT nightclub in Westchester County and the united community it built as a result.

I was entering my senior year at NYU’s film program and I wanted to make a documentary. Things happen a little later in life sometimes.

Yeah, especially at that time, too. I didn’t want to hang out in Westchester, being gay.

Yeah. He comes out with this giant bag of VHS tapes, I want to say there were 20 or so tapes.