I met many students from Georgetown and George Washington Universities at the L&F and some of us became best amigos. Some people drove all the way from Richmond Virginia - isn’t that over a 2-hour drive one-way? - to come to the L&F. Los chicos came to the L&F from all over. The L&F was an institution in DC for an entire generation of gay chicos/gay boys who lived in the District, Maryland and Virginia and beyond. Nearly every week Charles would ask, “You want to go with us into the District this weekend to the gay bar (meaning the L&F)?” We’d sometimes go to eat in Georgetown at Mr Henry’s (which I think is now closed or at least the Georgetown location is) and then go to the L&F over in SE. The Lost & Found was the first gay bar in a major city I ever went to - that was exciting! - with Charles (muchas gracias, Charles) from the Conservatory of Music where we were training together at the time. At the Lost & Found, each week there was some new music to dance to. It was quite a time musically for disco music and for me personally (see here and here). The L&F was a bar/discothèque where Queer chicos came to dance to the large repertoire of disco music being produced at that time. One of the things I enjoyed doing while living in the District and one of my main reasons for living there was to go with mis amigos/my friends (Charles, Michael and others) to the Lost & Found (L&F). The dance floor would be packed when the Lost & Found’s excellent DJ, Bill Owens, played Linda Clifford’s – If my friends could see me now, Donna Summer’s – MacArthur Park Suite and Love to Love you Baby, Loleatta Holloway’s sassy – I may not be there when you want me, but I’ll be right on time (that title always makes me laugh), Bionic Boogey’s – Risky Changes, The Richie Family’s – The Best Disco in Town/African Queen, Vicky Sue Robinson’s – Turn the Beat Around (skillfully mixed by Bill Owens with her follow-up song:) Should I Stay Should I Go?), George McCrae’s – Rock Your Baby, Barry White’s – Love’s Theme (this piece will really take you back to that time, or at least it has that effect on me.) Ralph McDonald’s – Calypso Breakdown, Sister Sledge – We are Family, Abba’s – Dancing Queen and many others from this list.Īs regular readers of pink barrio may know, I lived in the District of Columbia during the late 1970s. They mean the same thing and District of Columbia is the official name of the capital of the US. (Rant: By the way, It’s District of Columbia, not “Washington DC.” There is no Washington in DC. This article is about the Lost and Found discothèque - “the gay bar” as some of us referred to it - which was located at 56 L Street South East in the District of Columbia, Los Estados Unidos/the US. Have California Governor Gavin Newsom or San Francisco Mayor London Breed worn a mask since the day they prematurely lifted restrictions to cater to corporate interests? Basura. Masks and washing your hands are the rest of it. Stopped wearing a face mask, Gavin? So again, fully-vaccinated people are getting COVID. Quite ironic that after Governor Newsom got his last booster jab, he got COVID. You were only wearing a mask because required to. The three COVID infected people I know said, "I don't know how I got it." I felt like saying: I do, you stopped wearing your face mask the day that idiot politicians lifted the restrictions. And that's why they're not wearing a mask even when it's highly recommended to do so. Now, they couldn't care less if they become infected.
The odd thing is that most people were terrified of getting COVID at one time. And I don't understand what the big deal is about wearing a mask.
I don't want COVID, a cold, the flu or anything else. Like at medical centres, I haven't stopped wearing a mask and don't plan to. It's all about "what other people are doing" to fit in with the conformist sheeple herd. Nevermind your own health concerns and safety. That's the sheeple thinking I'm talking about.
I heard someone say today, "Well nobody else is wearing masks so why should we?" Insanity. Just like with their sex life, they don't care what infections they spread around to others and now including COVID. Two of the infected people are not isolating nor wearing masks. They all abandoned wearing their masks when corrupt politicians prematurely lifted COVID restrictions. Imagine that! What took so long? As reckless as they have been with their behaviour.