I want to go where no one knows my name and I can just be a fly on the wall. But when I do go out, I go to a straight bar. Where do you hang out in South Florida, and why? I mostly stay at home with the puppies and my girlfriend. What South Florida venue do you miss that’s gone? Backstreet. What do you like most about living here? I like the ocean and the palm trees. What part of South Florida do you live in? In Davie. She eventually went on to California, and I just stayed. Me and my girlfriend-at-the-time were on our way to California.
Why did you move here? Well, it snows in Ohio, and I love palm trees much better than snow. How long have you lived in South Florida? Since 1978. She had to learn how to survive in the male-dominate world of them - a world which she saw ravished by AIDS. At over 35 years, Vickie Bennett is - by all accounts - the most-tenured female bartender in the gay bars in Broward County.
