Peru's biggest LGBTQ nightclub reopens as grocery store to survive pandemic

Drag queen Belaluh McQueen puts on shoes as the LGBTQ nightclub ValeTodo Downtown reopens its doors as a grocery store while nightclubs are ordered to remain closed during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lima, Peru June 26, 2020. Picture taken June 26, 2020. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

LIMA (Reuters) - As Peru begins to ease its strict coronavirus lockdown, the country's biggest LGBTQ nightclub opened its doors on Tuesday, but there will be no nighttime revelers; its dance floor will instead be filled with shelves stocked with groceries.

Instead of slinging cocktails at the bar or dancing on stage, ValeTodo Downtown's famed staff of drag queens will sell customers daily household products as the space reopens as a market while nightclubs are ordered to remain closed.