![]() Though a few things at The Apartment Lounge have changed since the couple met, the core tenants are the same. “I think culturally, it’s more of a touchstone because we were a group of people that couldn’t just go to any bar without being closeted, because at the time you really couldn’t.” “A lot of us from our generation, we kind of grew up, and that was a special place – that’s where the gays went,” Ruud said. Kurt Moore and John Ruud met at the bar 12 years ago, though Ruud has been a patron since it stood at its previous location on the corner of Monroe and Fulton. The bar’s slogan is, “The place where friends meet,” but of course, it’s also a place where couples meet. We always talked about me buying it, and when he got sick, he called me in and said, ‘You know, I don’t know how long I’m going to be here I’m worried about The Apartment’s future, and I want you to be the new owner,’ I was so excited.” “We became friends over the next five years. “I met them on my 21st birthday in the old Apartment Lounge, and Milton embarrassed me in front of the whole wide gay world by taking my driver’s license and telling everybody they had a newbie,” Johnson said.
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