After several well-known LGBTQ-owned businesses launched successful fundraising campaigns, other businesses followed, with mixed results.Two of the most successful were by South of Market's internationally acclaimed nightclub and cabaret Oasis (raising $268,000 in a 12-hour telethon) and the Castro's Twin Peaks Tavern (raising $110,000 through GoFundMe).But when Arlen Lasater, the owner of Daddy's Barbershop in the Castro, launched its fundraiser the campaign fizzled, he conceded.
As of May 3, 32 people have donated $3,650, barely making a dent in his ambitious $100,000 goal."It hasn't worked out so far," said Lasater.Lasater, a 61-year-old gay man, was strongly opposed to asking the public for money, he told the Bay Area Reporter in a.