Club wins right to have naked male dancers

North Miami Beach's city council has agreed to "grandfather in" nude
dancing for the club, which would have been forced to stop based upon
a 1994 bylaw. The bar said they were being discriminated against;
before they opened, two straight bars were allowed to have naked
female dancers without incident. However, once the gay bar came into
town, the city decided to enforce the rule.

"We were not causing a problem, but giving people a good time,"
Swinging Richards' owner C.B. Jones said. "It isn't really a victory
when you just win what you should have had in the first place."

Jones had planned to sue the city if it didn't back down.

"All parties concerned thought that the lawsuit was strong enough to
prevail," Jones explained. "It was a better move to rewrite an old
ordinance into a better ordinance which is more in step with modern
times."