A Phat Nightclub for Plus-Sized People
By MARISSA SIFUENTES
Updated 4:16 PM CST, Wed, May 13, 2009
If Cheers is the bar where everyone knows your name, then Club Bounce is the one where everyone knows your weight.
Well, maybe not to the pound, but Bounce is the Long Beach nightclub that caters specially to plus-sized people, the Whittier Daily News reported.
"Club Bounce is a size-acceptance nightclub," said club owner Lisa Marie Garbo, 40. "People of larger shapes and sizes can go and feel comfortable, accepted and desired and not feel like they're second-class citizens for being overweight."
Bounce, on the Pacific Coast Highway, is only a weekend deal, but it's a success: Garbo has opened another location in Phoenix, AZ, and plans to open one in Hollywood.
Garbo, who says she's a distant cousin of the Hollywood legend Greta, believes that overweight people are the last group against which discrimination is still accepted.
"There's no sensitivity, there's no understanding," she told the paper. "[People] can make fun of you and nothing will happen to them for it."
That is heavy.
First Published: May 12, 2009 2:46 PM CST
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