The bar collected donations, sold raffle tickets and contributed 25 percent of liquor sales to a GoFundMe account created for the victims’ loved ones. The event at the Phoenix included live music, DJs and performances from drag queens across the valley. And the crowd was only expected to grow as the night went on. more than 50 people from the LGBT community, as well as many straight allies, had gathered there to raise money for the families of the Orlando, Florida, shooting victims. Wednesday nights are usually slow at the Phoenix Bar and Lounge, a gay bar on West Sahara Avenue near Arville Street.īut by 8 p.m. A fundraiser sign for the victims of the Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando, Fla., at the Phoenix bar and lounge located at 4213 West Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas on Tuesday, June 15, 2016.
