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Our city has been credited as one of the most gay-friendly in the country, alongside New York, San Francisco, and others on both coasts. In Dallas, a city smack in the center of what many would call the conservative South, gay culture thrives. The Hidden Door store is open for friends to get their gear and be ready for our reopening.In the five decades following the riot that sparked the gay community to stand up for equal rights, much has shifted. Meissner said he hopes to announce specifics soon. “Hidden Door doesn’t think it’s safe to re-open, even with precautions, until those numbers go down and more of our community is vaccinated.”He said the bar does have a target date for re-opening in mind, but that date is dependent on “the rate of new infections and deaths continuing to drop.” And even after the bar re-opens, “The policy of being open every legal hour will probably be curbed for the time-being.”
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“Dallas is still recording 200-plus new cases and 20 or so deaths each day,” Meissner said in a statement. They just intend to do so in the safest possible manner. That does not mean, however, that Meissner and Hidden Door staff are not working toward re-opening the bar. Harvey Meissner, left, and Christopher Turman from AIDS Services Of DallasĪlthough the Hidden Door has been shuttered since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Meissner said this week that the bar and the trust are “legally separate entities,” and that the trust is “well-funded and able to continue its donations without Hidden Door revenues.” When Bobrow died in February 2018, the bar and the rest of his estate went to the Bobrow Trust, with Meissner as president and general manager of The Hidden Door and as co-trustee of the Bobrow Trust.įollowing Bobrow’s wishes, Meissner and his co-trustee then closed out the Jim Roberts Trust by donating its assets and developed a plan to make ongoing donations to LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS community organizations from the assets of the Bobrow Trust. Anthony “Tony” Bobrow, a longtime employee, took over as owner of the bar then and as manager of the Jim Roberts Trust. Jim “Polock” Roberts opened the bar in 1979 and owned it until his death in 1988. The Anthony Bobrow Trust owns and is funded in part by proceeds from The Hidden Door, of which Meissner is president and general manager. The trust has already made smaller donations this year totalling about $10,000.īeneficiary organizations in this round of donations are Legacy Counseling Center, AIDS Services of Dallas, Dallas Hope Charities and AIN.Įach agency received a check for $62,500. Harvey Meissner and Evie Scrivner from Dallas Hope Charities
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The airperfect system at the hidden door runs 24/7, there’s never a time that surfaces and air are not 99.9% free of Covid 19 and other viruses. If they prevent even one case of Covid, it’s worth our efforts.” They’re optional on our patio, largest in the Oak Lawn area. We view masks as a minor, temporary inconvenience. “That’s what County Judge Clay Jenkins says will stop the spread. Meissner says even with the sophisticated air treatment the Hidden Door still requests that customers wear masks when not drinking inside the bar. Giving our customers the best protection we found, along with the suggested vaccinations and common sense about masking, gives us confidence that the Hidden Door staff and our family of customers are as safe as we can make them.” It’s been tested by highly-ranked labs, each of which got the same great results. “We looked at a variety of equipment before choosing ActivePure. It rapidly and continuously fills a room with virus-neutralizing particles that instantly break viruses down to their component parts, rendering them harmless. “The manufacturer tells us that unlike conventional, passive, filtration-based air purifiers, ActivePure works immediately and does not require capture or exposure time. “We installed over twice what we were told were necessary, three in the overhead air ducts, three stand-alones for the sides of the bar, and one in each of the rest rooms.” Harvey Meissner, President and General Manager, says “Over one million ActivePure systems are currently in use to help safeguard front-line workers in hospitals such as the Cleveland Clinic and in government buildings, including the Texas State Capitol. The Hidden Door has installed ActivePure Technology that the manufacturer claims eliminates over 99.9% of the airborne virus that causes COVID 19.