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"It can be difficult, being the only lesbian bar, trying to be everything for everyone in the lesbian community," she explains. She sued and used the money from the settlement to open Seattle’s first gay bar, which she named Shelly’s Leg. She moved to Seattle 15 years ago from Narragansett, Rhode Island, and started working for the Rose's then-owner, Panayoutou, back in 1997. TIL that a young stripper named Shelly Bauman lost her leg in a freak confetti cannon accident. a bootie and served with a twist) and the Shellys Leg (named after an early Seattle disco, which was also the citys first openly operated gay bar). Did anyone ever go to the Trolly Club Victoria Station. 1974: The Dorian Group, a more conservative gay-rights organization. Boren Street Disco which was basically a Gay bar like Shelleys Leg, but we spent a lot of time there. Opened in 1973 at the Pioneer Square intersection of Alaskan and South Main, Shelly’s Leg drew a line of customers who came to shake their groove things on the disco’s dance floor until it closed in 1978. Shellys Leg was famous for its sign declaring it to be a 'Gay Bar Provided for Seattles Gay Community and Their Guests.' 1974: The Seattle Gay News begins publication. Seattle’s first out-and-proud gay bar was Shelly’s Leg, named for owner Shelly Bauman’s amputated limb. "It can be a struggle sometimes," says Manning. 14, 1973: Shellys Leg, Seattles first disco, opens 'at the foot of Main' (Street) in Pioneer Square. Their names are Martha Manning and Shelley Brothers. Sources: Jonathan Katz, Gay American History: Lesbian and Gay Men in the USA: a Documentary History (New York: Meridian, 1992) A Historical Map of Lesbian and Gay Seattle, map, (Seattle: Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum Project, 1996), Map Collection, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington Mosaic 1: Life Stories, from Isolation to Community (Seattle: Northwest. In the early 1990s, the place was bought by a certain Joann Panayoutou, and in September 2000, the current owners liberated it from her and still own it today. They took over an old spot on Pike Street where a place called the Sundowner used to live, tossed in some pinball machines and pool tables, populated the all grrrrl staff with cute professionals and the menu with a damn fine turkey burger, and voilà! The Wildrose was born. The Wildrose began with a mysterious woman called Bryher Herrick, who started the bar with a collective of five equally mysterious women in 1985.