Ask the Locals: Beneva Fruitville
AARON DRAKE
This local celebrity knows how visitors and
locals alike party it up after that blistering
Florida sun goes down! Drag queen Beneva
Fruitville is a regular entertainer at Oasis, Sarasota’s
premier LGBTQ venue. She—her real name is Barry
Ayers, by the way—fi rst moved to Sarasota in 2004
from Winter Haven, Florida.
BOTTOM LEFT
LOVE OF FILM:
Burns Court Cinema
offers a wide array
of fi lm options.
The Sarasota Film
Society is a nonprofi t,
member-supported
organization.
PHOTO BY DYLAN TODD
BOTTOM RIGHT
ORIGINAL MENU:
Pangea Lounge was
created in 2010 to
bring the Gulf Coast
a world of seasonal
handmade craft
cocktails in a relaxed
European-style
lounge setting.
PHOTO COURTESY OF
PANGEA'S WEBSITE
Nightlife
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