Using beer crates and plywood as a stage, Flint opened the world-famous Baton Show Lounge more than 40 years ago, at a time when running a gay bar�especially one that featured female impersonators�meant placating corrupt cops and dealing with shadowy Mafiosi. This article shared 8647 times since Wed Nov 30, 2011Ĭonformity may have been king in Chicago in the 1960s and '70s, but Jim Flint wasn't afraid to rule as a queen.
