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Uncle Elizabeth's (Closed Permanently)

(1 Rating)
Everyone's favorite uncle
This fun bar has karaoke, drag shows and cheap drinks. What more could you ask for? Well, how about BOP--Boys On Poles, that is.




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JhonieAppleseed37
JhonieAppleseed37 first review First to Review
Over a year ago

Small town "Gay"? bar.

I really want to love "The big E". But I don't. It sounds as if the trailer version was much better, which I'll never know since I never went to the old location, but I do know the new one is mediocre at best. First, it's possibly the brightest gay dance club I've ever been in. (Then again, it is in a strip mall.) Second, 90 percent of it is stuck in the past. I mean, I heard about Bulwinkles in the 1990's?, But that doesn't mean I want to hear things like "I'm Too Sexy" and "O.P.P." still in constant rotation at a new gay bar in 2009. A friend of mine joked that it's like the type of gay bar you'd see in a movie that's set anywhere in America from 1980 to the present and that the clientle was straight out of central casting. Sadly, I agree. Everyone there is super nice, but I'd really like to see it step out of its time warp and into some current good dance music. Or hell, at least make one night a week "cool new music night." Unfortunately, I also think even if Bloomington is teeming with GLBTQ and straight lovers of '90s radio dance music, its location is going to keep it from reaching its full potential. Unlike Bullwinkle's before it (and even its own previous location), it's not close enough to downtown to be a place people want to go when all the other bars suck. I've been to Uncle E's a one time and there was never more than 20 people in there when I was there. The only reason I went is because I happened to be on the West Side of town, so I passed by it on my way home. Otherwise, it really has to be a chosen destination for the night, and I don't think your average college town bar-hopper is willing to camp out in a West Side strip mall all night.


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