🎬 SPECIAL PRIDE SCREENING OF FESTIVAL AWARD WINNING VERSION THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2026 • 7PM 🎬
Following its Audience Favorite Second Place award at the Out at the Movies International Film Festival, the newly expanded edition of No Closet Space returns to Tropic Cinema for a special hosted opening night event.
Director Timothy Dahms and host Bobby Nesbitt will introduce the film live before the screening, followed by a Q&A discussion with the audience.
This powerful new version of the film contains substantial new material, including expanded stories and firsthand accounts of The Monster, the Copa nightclub and tragic Copa fire, the origins of the 801 Bar, La Te Da, Atlantic Shores Resort, Donnie’s Club International, Club 416, and much more — along with newly restored photographs, footage, and interviews with many of the people who lived this history.
The evening will also include a special remembrance of beloved Key West icon Gordon Ross, whose warmth, humor, and storytelling helped make the original film so memorable to so many.
If you saw the original version, you truly haven’t seen the completed film.
Come celebrate the stories, people, and memories that helped shape our island community.
Additional screenings to be announced.
This groundbreaking documentary showcases never-before-seen found footage, photos and more.
It tells the story of the truly magical time in the history of the LGBTQ+ community in Key West.

