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Steve Smith and Michael "Dolly" Wilson opened Warehouse 28 in April 1978. It began as a gay disco, but it quickly attracted anybody, gay or straight, who wanted to dance. As the AIDS epidemic exploded, it staged drag-show fundraisers that made possible the founding of Nashville Council on AIDS, Resources, Education and Services, Nashville CARES, in 1985. The bar closed in 1994, and Smith died of AIDS-related causes in 1995.
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