'There were 12 people, which doesn't sound like a lot, but 12 more were crowding around to watch us. No one was more surprised than me!' he said. 'We started on a Tuesday in December, and low and behold, it was packed.
Still, Cordora couldn't help but give Phelps a 'Yes': He's been running Texas Hold 'Em-style poker matches on the second floor of Boxer's Philadelphia since December. That, of course, was before the phenomenon of Pennsylvania casino licenses. To be clear, when Cordora says 'years ago,' he's referring to when he launched his Bluffin' with Butch poker company, which ran a string of poker matches in the Gayborhood at bars like Tavern on Camac, Woody's and, by 2008, in Irish pubs up and down South Street. Now there's Sugarhouse, Parx and Harrah's, and they're the real deal - no one needs the bull**** poker where you win the free drink.' 'I got this email about two months ago from Kip Phelps, from Boxers, and he's like, 'Butch, my boyfriend said you used to run poker all the time in the Gayborhood - would you entertain the thought of running a poker game here?'' Cordora told 'I told him I didn't think it would work because of the casinos - it's not like it was years ago. After a brief hiatus, following the disappearance of his 2013-launched G-town Radio show, Butch Cordora, Philly's longtime LGBT talk show host and visual artist, is back on the scene.
