Located at 1884 Market Street, the bar was a space of celebration and resistance - hosting fundraisers for activist groups, honoring black holidays and heroes, and participating in the historic Market Street vigils for those lost to AIDS. In 1990, Rodney Barnette opened the New Eagle Creek Saloon to serve a multiracial gay community marginalized by the racist profiling practices of San Francisco’s queer bar scene at that time. This work is honorific but also generative with intimacy rather than reverence, my restaging of the New Eagle Creek Saloon offers space for connection and new energies, to dance and dream, to call the names of those lost and to see one another as we are in the glow of our own small moments of freedom. The first gay bar to operate under the name The Eagle was The Eagles Nest (now named Eagle NYC), located in New York City. The place was closed and a new location was found. Glowing somewhere between a monument and an altar, the glittering bar structure is not only a place but is at once an invocation and an invitation. The neighborhood had changed from gay biker bars to frat boy hang outs. The New Eagle Creek Saloon is an installation that reimagines my father’s bar - the first black-owned gay bar in San Francisco. HOT MEN, GREAT POOL, SERIOUS CRUISING NEW YORKS PREMIERE LEATHER BAR.