Flaming Saddles

"Eagles Fly won approval to convert the historic building and former bar Flaming Saddles into a split-level space with a ground-floor restaurant and smoking and non-smoking areas for cannabis upstairs." - Mona Holmes

"In August, Flaming Saddles owners Jacqui Squatriglia and Chris Barnes stated on social media that they could not come to a lease agreement with Overstreet to remain in that space, and thus would have to close forever." - Mona Holmes

"Flaming Saddles, another prominent gay bar in West Hollywood, closed on August 16. The closure was due to the bar's inability to negotiate a new lease agreement with landlord Monte Overstreet, who owns the property. Flaming Saddles was one of several bars and clubs that could not survive the financial difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic." - Mona Holmes

"Five-year-old West Hollywood bar Flaming Saddles has closed as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The country and western-themed gay bar is just the latest COVID-19 related business casualty around greater Los Angeles, but certainly won’t be the last. Owners Jacqui Squatriglia and Chris Barnes announced the closure over the weekend on social media, saying that they could not come to an agreement with their landlord to allow them to remain in the space. “As we were drawing close to opening Flaming Saddles” after months of being closed during the lockdowns, the statement reads, “it was revealed to us that we did not have a secure deal” with the landlord, despite believing otherwise. Renegotiation efforts failed, and thus Flaming Saddles is no more, though a New York City location remains." - Farley Elliott

"Queer bar closed following a fallout with its landlord." - Matthew Kang