The owner of Houston’s only lesbian bar says her business is in jeopardy after it was denied insurance coverage. “They outright denied us, the underwriters, because we host drag shows,” Julie Mabry, the owner of Pearl Bar, says.
The owner of Houston’s only lesbian bar says her business is in jeopardy after it was denied insurance coverage, and she’s putting the blame, in part, on an anti-drag bill moving through the Texas Legislature.
“This is the first time I’ve ever gotten an email like that. I cried about this for about a week,” said Mabry, who told KPRC that drag shows were the first thing mentioned in the email, which outlined why the underwriter did not want to take on the risk of insuring her bar. Mabry, who opened Pearl Bar in 2013, said the current political climate fueled the situation she’s in, and she encouraged followers of the Pearl Bar Instagram account to contact their legislators about anti-LGBTQ bills in the state, including one that wouldon public property, the premises of a commercial enterprise or in the presence of a child.
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