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Miniver was her actual first name but she went by her middle mention, Sue. All the way back in the woman known to most as Sue Hanna opened Orlando’s first lesbian bar called Faces.

Faces was situated in the Lee Rd.-Edgewater Dr. area just a stone’s hurl from the currently operating Hank’s. Sue would later uncover a much larger, multi-level, multi-bar entertainment complex known as Key Largo which was situated way up the Orange Blossom Trail just south of Apopka. Both of Sue’s bars operated primarily as gathering spots for queer women. For years men were routinely barred from entering Faces while Key Largo provided a more welcoming space for all members of Orlando’s burgeoning gay community. Actor-producer David Lee as adequately as Theater Downtown proprietor Frank Hilgenberg presented many fully produced shows in the barn-shaped Key Largo.

I have many fond memories connected with both of Sue’s spaces — neither of which are operational today — and it strikes me how few people who currently enjoy mingling with a strong mix of persons represented by every letter of the LGBTQ+ moniker — at o