Tonight the Wilde Roast Cafe received the Trailblazer Business Award from TLC (Tobacco-free Lavender Communities) for being smoke free before it was required. TLC is hosting the National “Queer the Air” conference in Minneapolis this weekend, so people from all over the US were at the dinner. The other businesses that received the award were: Barbette, Jetset Bar, Cafe Brenda and Egg and I.

I talked about how hard it was to open a place designed like a English men’s smoking room and be non smoking. My idea four years ago was VETOED by Dean was to have signs on the door that read “NO FAGS ALLOWED.” FYI a cigarette in England is called a fag. OK…maybe it is only me that thinks that is funny.

I really hope TLC of Minnesota goes the distance. LGBT persons smoke at a higher rate than the national average, and about 80% of my staff smokes.

THANKS TLC!