If you ever felt like owning a piece of LGBTQ leather history — or perhaps one day, once we get past these miserable times of COVID-19, operate your own iconic leather bar — the legendary DC Eagle could be yours for the right price. (Scroll to the bottom of the article for our daily “Eagle Bid Watch.”)
The trade name and logo of the onetime venerable leather, kink, and BDSM bar are currently for sale at Rasmus Auctions, a D.C.-based business that handles estate and business liquidations. The DC Eagle listing reads as follows:
“Rights & Title to the famous DC Eagle Bar includes tradename [sic], logo, domain name, website, facebook [sic] page and other social media acces [sic]. By order of The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia.”
Throughout its 48-year history, the DC Eagle served as a go-to destination and gathering place for members of the leather, Levi, kink, fetish, and BDSM communities. Its importance to the community cannot be underestimated. Among other notable facts, it had the longest-running leather title contest of any bar in the country.
The bar relocated five times, and frequently changed ownership throughout its history, first opening in 1971 at 904 9th St. NW, in the city’s Mount Vernon neighborhood. Its most recent location at Benning Road opened in 2015. Due to the persistence of various owners to keep the valuable brand alive, the DC Eagle was seen by many as indestructible. A sale of the building in 2019 for a reported $1.5 million, followed by alleged mismanagement of funds, eventually brought the mighty bird down.
The auction for the trade name and logo closes on October 16, 2020 at 3:04 p.m. Those with an interest in bidding can apply here.
We will be monitoring the auction daily and updating the ongoing total below. Feel free to bookmark this page and visit anytime to see where the current bidding for the name and rights to the DC Eagle.
Leo Varadkar, Ireland's youngest, first openly gay, and first multiracial prime minister, announced on March 20 that he is stepping down from office.
Varadkar resigned as leader of the Fine Gael political party and will resign as prime minister -- or taoiseach -- once a successor is named.
Standing on the steps of the Government Buildings in Dublin, the 45-year-old said he was stepping down for "personal and political" reasons, "but mainly political," reported The Guardian.
"I believe this government can be re-elected," Varadkar said. "I believe a new taoiseach will be better placed than me to achieve that -- to renew and strengthen the top team, to refocus our message and policies, and to drive implementation. After seven years in office, I am no longer the best person for that job."
A Milwaukee school principal has been sued in federal court by a gay couple who allege he bullied, harassed, threatened, and assaulted their son for having two same-sex parents, violating the child's civil rights in the process.
The parents, referred to as M.P. and T.L. in the lawsuit, claim that Kasongo Kalumbula allegedly mistreated their son because of his family's makeup.
The lawsuit, filed last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, asks for a jury trial and seeks an undetermined amount in damages.
It alleges that Kalumbula, who served as the assistant principal, and later, acting principal, of the Milwaukee French Immersion School from September 2018 to October 2021, physically and verbally abused the child -- who was in first grade when the harassment started -- and routinely singled him out for discipline.
Police arrested a former Jackson Police Department officer who allegedly killed his ex-boyfriend in a bloody attack at a Jackson, Mississippi apartment complex.
Police mounted a search for 33-year-old Marcus Johnson in connection with the murder of 25-year-old Carlos Collins, a registered nurse who hailed from Yazoo City.
Collins was killed on April 9 at the Tapestry Northridge Apartments, off Parkway Drive near Old Canton Road, in the northeastern part of Jackson.
According to WAPT, members of Collins family said police told them that Collins succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained during the attack, and that an axe was used during the murder.
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