Friends & Lovers was the target of a lot of hate mongers. There was a projection room at the top, and we projected ongoing movies, whether it was Ben-Hur or anything with men.
We were their showroom at that point, and we had multiscreen media on the sidewall. We opened up before Studio 54, and all those boys came down here and looked at Friends & Lovers because Blackstone Productions/High End Systems, they did the deed. So my long-term lover at that point kept asking me: 'What is this guy to you? Is he a friend or a lover?' I said, 'friends and lovers!' I was trying to avoid answering the question. We had a lot of fun, et cetera, et cetera. Buzzy was a tall blonde, and he was going through his butch reassurance phase. In fact, the very first mascot was not Bevo but their dog, Pig. The name was very interesting, as there was a guy named Buzzy Belmont (Buzzy's grandfather was who Belmont Hall at UT was named after) and his father, Theo Belmont. It was an old vaudeville house with perfect acoustics.