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The unassuming one-story building at Two Notch Road, now painted in Benedict College's purple and gold, was a former Black gay bar. Closed in , the Candy Shop was once the longest-running gay club in South Carolina's capital. More than two decades after the Candy Shop closed its doors, the researchers and preservationists at Historic Columbia have joined the struggle to correct the way the club has thus far been "written over" in the historical record.

The preservation efforts continue to be led by the former performers and patrons who spent their weekends at the Candy Shop, beginning in , when the bar opened under its original name, The Gay Delight Club. Through this work, the preservation coalition intends to honor the Candy Shop's significance and make a statement about the rootedness of queer histories in the American South amid the region's increasingly hostile, homophobic, and anti-trans political climate.

During the s, South Carolina's gay pride movement made significant strides into the public sphere. The action was the first for the New York City-based group outside of a major metropolitan area, and it led to dozens of arrests. During this time, the growing PRIDE movement in South Carolina and across the American South was predominately white, and many queer spaces remained de facto segregated.

The Candy Shop emerged against this exclusion as an important site for Black queer folk who sought to carve out their own spaces. Sometimes, you would see all the white people on one side and all the Black people on the other side," said Sam Hunter, a former Candy Shop performer and show director who also performs as The Ebony Goddess Samantha Hunter. We don't have to take this anymore.

For Black queer Southerners, too little has passed with the time. Hunter represents an older generation of Candy Shop regulars who started frequenting the club in the late s. Hunter worked as a show director for decades until the club closed in During that time, Hunter mentored dozens of young performers, including Columbia native Dorae Saunders, the trans drag star and America's Got Talent quarterfinalist who saw her first drag show at the Candy Shop in the mids.

Hunter said musical performances at the Candy Shop reflected the tastes of the Black community, featuring more soul music than was played at the city's other clubs. Contestants for the title of Mister Candy Shop competed in presentation, swimwear, and talent categories, while contestants for the Miss Candy Shop title competed in presentation, sportswear, evening gown, and talent categories. Hunter won the latter title in the pageant's third year.

While the Candy Shop never had the capacity of some of Columbia's other gay clubs—Hunter clarified, "If you got 50 people, that meant it was packed," and the dressing room could not accommodate any more than 10 people—its talent far outstripped its humble infrastructure.

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As the club developed a reputation for its premier entertainment and late hours, it also became a favorite destination for some non-Black community members. While clubs in downtown Columbia tended to close around 1 a. When that show ended, "We would all pour out into the parking lot and for another hour or so, the club would kind of continue outside," recalled Henderson.

There's still a need for us to know that we exist, to know we're not alone, to know there are others like us. The feelings of belonging, empowerment, and community that performers and patrons found at the Candy Shop are what those involved in the club's commemoration hope to rekindle through their work. The club is featured on Historic Columbia's " We're Here! Researchers also produced a long-form interactive story about female impersonators on the city's minstrel and vaudeville stages in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

These performers' shows were precursors to those the Candy Shop would stage decades later. The "We're Here! There are places that I think we would have been able to advocate for had we known this history existed," said Allen. The show's account of Florida's neo-Nazis and proto-fascists are sickening—and not in the fabulous drag way.