Vegas Set To Open The World's Largest Gay Club PDF Print
Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 26 July 2012
Tags: krave, massive, las vegas, world's largest, gay club, neonopolis, sin city

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A newly unveiled and ambitious plan from Las Vegas mainstay Krave reveals that Sin City could soon play home to yet another attraction: the world's largest gay club. Details follow. 

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Krave Entertainment on Wednesday announced plans to take over the former Galaxy 11 movie theater on the Neonopolis' third floor. The company, which also owns the Drink and Drag bowling alley and drag queen-themed bar on the complex's second floor, will transform the 80,000-square-foot space with 14 theaters into the world's largest gay nightclub, owner Kelly Murphy said.

"My goal is to knock New York out of the No. 1 spot for gays and lesbians in the United States," Murphy said.

The cardboard cutouts from "Ice Age" and Dolby Digital signs will be removed. Six or seven walls separating the screens will be knocked down.

The long-vacant space will be transformed into Krave Massive, with five themed dance rooms (hip-hop, country, Latin), three bars, a VIP lounge, comedy club, performance art space and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, movie theater. The huge undertaking will cost about $1.5 million. Murphy said the club will open in stages, with at least one of the themed rooms and the martini lounge in what is now the theater lobby open by the end of the year.

Promoters also plan to turn the third floor into a swimming pool for the club, bringing the total square footage of the Krave massive project to 128,000. 

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written by ScorpioDan, July 26, 2012
Wow. I'd love a space with a gay comedy club, different music genre rooms.

Sounds great!
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written by DIck Z, July 26, 2012
Would this make Las Vegas "sinnier" than New York? Sounds great!
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written by LVleo78, April 22, 2013
The finite number of GLBT locals in Vegas, coupled with the downtown location & its titanic size will lead Krave Massive to failure. Tourism may keep people coming, but repeat customers are a business's bread & butter. Krave has never been successful at supporting the local GLBT community, and this venue will likely prove no different. The overhead at a club of this size will be incredible, & with that comes gigantic cover charges & outrageous drink prices. Locals won't go to a place that doesn't support them or prices them out at the door.
It's also amazing how a company which filed bankruptcy ($3.5 million in January of 2010 - $485,000 owed to the Nevada Department of Taxation and Division of Industrial Relations for sales, entertainment and unemployment taxes; another $601,000 owed to the IRS for payroll taxes plus an additional $847,000 in back rent to then landlord IRALP Inc., - according to the Las Vegas Sun) can now dump $1.5 million into an Neonopolis and plans to invest another $750,000 by the end of 2013. The new landlords should be wary.
Also, why won't The Las Vegas Sun and other media outlets investigate the legality of the +18 nights Krave has at its current location? It seems Mr. Murphy and his business partners don't care about NRS 202.030, and other laws & statutes regarding lewd behavior, etc.
Needless to say, as a GLBT person, Krave, nor any of its sister properties will gain my support now, or ever.

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