Flyers collected by Houston LGBT History show that there was always live music at Chances, which had separate rooms throughout the venue, including The Barn and The G-Spot. Owner Marlene Beago hosted regular fundraisers at the bar. Molly Glentzer / Houston Chronicle Then: ChancesĬhances opened in 1994 at 1100 Westheimer as a bar that catered to lesbians in particular, and others in the LGBTQ community.
During the AIDS crisis, patrons affixed photographs of friends to the surface of the bar. Naturally from a 2021 exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston. We take a look a handful of queer icons and what stands in their place today.Ī detail of one of the fragments reclaimed from Mary's.
