When Gramps announced last month that its Wynwood location will close in January after 13 years in business, the news cut deep for Miami creatives . It was especially painful for Miami's queer community, who've made a second home of Gramps' Double Stubble, the neighborhood's longest-running weekly drag series. For years, every Thursday night, queens and kings, DJs and dancers, locals and visitors alike created a sanctuary that will soon shut its doors. More troubling still: Gramps is only the latest casualty in a troubling string of queer safe space closures.

Last month, Willy's, a queer-owned bar that quickly became a community hub , abruptly closed in Wynwood. And as of July, Spanish Marie, a Kendall brewery-turned-suburban-drag-haven , is no longer hosting drag shows. These los

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