By Catie Cheshire, Westword | The building at 2199 California Street that had been the Mercury Cafe is now officially The Pearl; in March, Dom Garcia and Ashlee Cassity, along with partners Jonathan Mora and the Sapphic Collective, leased the place with an option to buy. But the rough patches they encountered at their last location aren’t smoothed over yet.
Back in December, Garcia and Cassity opened a tiki-themed lesbian speakeasy, Pearl Divers, inside Your Mom’s House at 608 East 13th Avenue, in a deal they’d made with the venue’s owners last fall. Soon after, though, Jillian Johnson bought Your Mom’s House from that ownership group, though a few members stayed on as silent partners.
Johnson officially inaugurated her ownership of Your Mom’s House with a party on January 4; at the time, she told Westword she was excited about the deal with Pearl Divers. “I was super happy to see Pearl Divers being a partner of Your Mom’s House,” Johnson said. “It’s one of the few lesbian bars left in the country. That’s a big deal to me. I’m all about girl power.”
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Read the original Westword article to see how this agreement disintegrated:
https://www.westword.com/news/denver-bars-the-pearl-and-your-moms-house-ugly-dispute-24159851
[Thanks to Alex Teitz for contributing this article! http://www.femmusic.com]
Photo: Mercury Cafe door covering