Gigis gay bar

Folks who go to Gigi’s seem to come back again and again through the years. Only the best would wear it, however. He was Mr. Gigi’s 2020-2022.

“Gigi’s is home,” he said. “There’s nothing like it,” he said. Some have managed to steal Gigi’s crowd away for a while, but the bar has always persevered, and the crowd always eventually came back.

I was absent from the bar for several years in the ’90s while I lived in Miami.

And you will leave a very happy person because you obviously came here to enjoy yourself and I can guarantee you that’s what you would do.

Randy Markoz Santiago: Even though I work here, I still feel like I can be myself here. So he’d be happy that it’s in the open now. Ms. Gigi’s is the longest gay bar title in the nation.

It’s really an achievement.”

Retzloff, who teaches queer studies at Michigan State, has actually taken two classes to the bar on fieldtrips. We don’t ask at the door who you love, who you want to love, who you are, who you want to be. It doesn’t matter who or what you are, color or creed.

I became a regular at Gigi’s once again. Everyone’s welcome. “They did a lot to upgrade the bar, doing things I’ve always dreamed of but the old corporation never had the means to do, or the want to do, for years.

“I tried and tried,” Stevens went on. It may be the biggest title outfit in the state.

In my late ’30s and early ’40s, I was trying to get my groove back.

Everybody is welcome. But there’s more that can be done and needs to be done.

Randy Markoz Santiago, Bar Manager, Gigi’s: I love listening to all their stories. We at Gigi’s want people to feel the same way when they walk through our doors. Come see me, the crazy Peroxide Piranha.

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Gigi’s is located at 16920 W. Warren in Detroit, just three blocks off the Southfield Expressway. You could have, basically, gone to jail.

I can’t give him kisses outside of… At Belle Isle, we can’t sit at the park and just hold hands because people are going to look at us weirdly.