The bar, Flaming Saddles, at 793 Ninth Avenue, near 53rd Street, opened in 2011. “It’s high drama and high energy for sure,” declared Kris Coughlin, a bartender there. The place - improbably for Manhattan - is a country-western joint where the staff climbs on the bar and performs dance numbers. She favors off-the-shoulder tops and stiletto heels he wears leather jackets and rides a Harley.
This sounds like the premise for a sitcom or a reality TV show: A straight couple opens a gay bar.
