WithThe New Eagle Creek Saloon, artist Sadie Barnette gives her fathers gay bar new life.
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We needed some convincing.
Theres only one way to heat up a dance floor.
The real New Eagle Creek was San Franciscos first Black-owned gay bar when Rodney opened it in 1990.
When the family filed a FOIA request for his FBI dossier, they received a 500-page surveillance file.
It lasted three years but has found an afterlife in Sadies tender re-creation.
Mementos decorate the shelves here.
The DJs at the Kitchen are part of a nightlife residency put together by the critic and academicmadison moore.
That Saturday, moore was there too, dancing and sending missives through Instagram.
On most days, though, music plays over the installation without a DJ.
The horseshoe bar sits empty.
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