Jacques’ years in the bar business and Rodgers’ political connections brought a parade of celebrities into the club, including Grace Slick, Bobbie Gentry, Joan Rivers, Siegfried and Roy, Debbie Reynolds, U.S. Gipsy was flashy, glamorous, and upscale. Gipsy was opened on Apat 4605 Paradise Road by legendary bar owner/queer activist Marge Jacques and businesswoman/Democratic Party advocate Kerin Rodgers. Owner Paul San Filipo has plans to develop a new and improved Gipsy on the site, but the demolition of the old Gipsy represents the end of a rich era of Las Vegas LGBTQ+ history.
It only took one day to demolish the Gipsy nightclub - by late afternoon of July 11, the jewel of Las Vegas’ gay clubs and the 40 years of Las Vegas queer history it represented was a pile of rubble.
