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The first LGBTQ-owned boutique hotel in Las Vegas, named Bent Inn, will open in mid-2023 on 11th Street and Ogden Avenue in the city’s downtown area.

Bent Inn will cater to a gay clientele while remaining straight-friendly.

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Owners Greg Kafka and Mark Hunter are the team behind the project. They seek to extend the hospitality they previously offered at their resorts aimed at a gay male clientele, Escape Resort and Desert Paradise Resort, both in Palm Springs, California.

A revitalised neck of the woods

The hotel will have 33 “playfully designed” rooms that incorporate mid-century modern and industrial design, wall murals and original posters of gay pulp fiction from the 1950s and 1960s.

It will also have a pool and a 50-seat gastropub serving breakfast, lunch and dinner with a shareable menu.

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Escape Resorts Inc is the parent company behind the project, and bought three adjacent Las Vegas parcels for $2.73 million in January 2020. The property was originally built in 1963 and operated as the Moonlight Motel.

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Filling a longstanding gap

The owners cited the Covid-19 pandemic, permit issues and inflationary cost overruns for the delay in launching, but now believe that the hotel will open at the perfect time.

Shopping centres such as Fergusons Downtown, which opened in December 2019, and the recent arrival of shareDOWNTOWN Fremont East, a five-storey, 84-unit apartment building at the southeast corner of Stewart Avenue and 11th Street, are attracting more visitors to the area.

“Vegas has so many tourists coming in this direction, but they don’t have any business that caters to the gay clientele,” Hunter told the Las Vegas Review Journal. “We are billing ourselves as a ‘straight-friendly’ hotel. A lot of places advertise as gay-friendly, so we’re flipping it as a fun little bit and people can be comfortable as themselves.”