Sellers Underground has closed. The
Fourth Street fixture, which was just days shy of celebrating its four-year anniversary, announced its permanent closure in an Instagram post last Saturday (Dec. 5), citing
COVID-19 capacity restrictions making it impossible for us to continue. (The bar had been operating for barely a month under the TABC s bars-with-food loophole before Saturday s announcement.) It s heartbreaking. Following
BT2 s closure in May, Sellers is now the second local gay bar to close because of the pandemic, which means a quarter of Austin s queer bars and clubs have shuttered in the crisis wake. I m too much of a young un to remember the gay bars that occupied Sellers space pre-2016 –