Just as quickly as it closed, the Baltimore Eagle reopened late last week under the same ownership, but new management. While the bar was back up and pouring drinks on Thursday, one day after its former operators, 4 Crazy Guys, abruptly packed up and shut it down, owner Ian Parrish says it wasn’t until Friday that they drew a small crowd.
Parrish said former staff from the defunct gay bars The Hippo and G-A-Y Lounge, as well as Gallagher’s, helped them clean up the space and support them on Thursday. The night before, the bar’s liquor inventory had been cleared out, with bottles taken, broken or emptied into the sink, and memorabilia removed from the premises.
The old management, 4 Crazy Guys, had announced they were leaving the iconic gay leather bar behind in a letter posted online. It alleged Parrish and other co-owners had meddled with marketing decisions and locked them out of their website and Facebook page, and that lender John Yelcick sought to accelerate their loan repayment process to push 4 Crazy Guys out of the business, among other accusations.
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