"The gentleman across the street called and said, 'Freddie, there's a fire at your place. The firemen are here, and the police.' I rushed down, and thankfully, they got it under control before it spread beyond the vestibule. It could have been so much worse."
"I go back and forth about whether this was because we're a gay bar. The other two businesses aren't gay, so it seems like someone was just angry. But the police told me it could be a combination of things-anger at us for being gay and anger at the other places for different reasons."
"In 23 years of running Freddie's, we've had very little trouble until recently. Now it feels like the rhetoric and climate are fueling this kind of hostility toward us."
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