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Jacksonville has been home to bars, clubs and other venues catering to the LGBTQ community since at least the s. At a time when being out came with huge social stigma and often personal danger, these spaces served as safe havens for LGBTQ Jaxsons to meet, find a date or simply be themselves in public. By , Jacksonville was home to at least three gay bars.

Club Jacksonville is located at Hendricks Ave in Jacksonville, Florida Club Jacksonville can be contacted via phone at () for pricing, hours and directions.

According to the sloganeers at the local chamber of commerce, Jacksonville is "where Florida begins. For gay travelers en route to the State's more traditional destinations -- Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Key West and even Tampa -- Jacksonville has been little more than a weigh station along the road, a place to fill up one tank and empty another. But in , Jacksonville received a welcome shred of recognition when it was included in a list of burgeoning gay meccas.

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Originally constructed in , the nearly 11, square foot, two-story building sits on a lot of slightly more than 20, square feet. Redevelopment of the site would include tearing down the dilapidated structure and replacing it with a modern, two-story, 8, square foot building that would include a first floor restaurant and 2nd floor office spaces. Preliminary renderings show that the site could accommodated up to 32 on-site parking spaces, pending successful rezoning.

For over forty years, the building served as a bathhouse primarily serving a gay, bisexual and transgender clientele. It first opened in as Roman Spa, a spa and gym owned by the late Gary Causey, Fred Rhoden and Edward Olson. Charles Deskin purchased the spa in and the business became Club Jacksonville, which operated until earlier in.

IT is all new and bright and shinny. It even looks bigger, not sure they might have added room on the top row of seats. So check it out.