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Bars & clubs / Northeast Detroit (8 Mile)

The Birdcage

Closed – archive entry · 2013

A show bar at 6640 E. 8 Mile Road that followed the Rainbow Room and crowned its own drag pageant titleholders; it closed in 2013.

01 / The story of this place

Make time for these

After the Rainbow Room closed, its East 8 Mile space carried on as the Birdcage, another show bar. Like its predecessor, it had drag pageant titles of its own, including Miss Birdcage and Miss Amateur Birdcage, which live on in the Our Community Roots archive. The Birdcage closed in 2013.

  1. Successor to the Rainbow Room at the same address
  2. Miss Birdcage and Miss Amateur Birdcage titles
  3. Show bar on East 8 Mile
Sources & fact check · Checked: 2026-09-25

An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.

03 / Events

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Source and former website ↗