GoFundMe launched this week.Co-owners Peter Alexander and Scott Craig are asking the LGBTQ+ community for help in making payments as the bar weathers the economic fallout from the pandemic.
In L.A. Country, all bars and restaurants have been closed as soaring infection rates threaten to overwhelm local hospitals.Akbar is one of L.A.'s few prominent LGBTQ+ watering holes outside of West Hollywood.
It also attracted a queerer, more bohemian clientele than the Boystown bars.In a statement to The Advocate, Alexander and Craig outlined the reasons for the crowdsourcing: The reason we decided to start a GoFundMe campaign was because we are running out of funds.