Joe Redner
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Joseph R. "Joe" Redner, born c. 1940, is the owner of the Mons Venus, a nude strip club in Tampa, Florida, and is known as the father of the nude lap dance.[1]
Redner has been engaged in legal battles with the Tampa City Council, which has tried to place restrictions on the strip club industry for 25 years. Mons Venus and Redner have filed suits that have reached the Supreme Court and have become case law in many court cases. Redner ran for County Commissioner as an independent in 2004. Redner's website, The Voice of Freedom, was initially created to inform citizens of his ongoing legal battles with the government, but later expanded to cover other First Amendment issues.
In a federal lawsuit filed against Hillsborough County commissioners after they banned the county itself from recognizing gay pride displays [1], Redner included the revelation that he is homosexual. In an earlier version of the same suit Redner did not mention his sexual orientation and had previously never mentioned it publicly.
Currently Joe Redner is in a bid for Hillsborough County Commission seat, District 5.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Does nude-club king's cash come dressed like the rest?. Council for American-Islamic Relations. Retrieved on 2006-11-12.
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Joe Redner at MySpace
- 'Voice of Freedom'
- 'Out-front' and now, openly, he's out (St. Petersburg Times, December 13, 2005)
- Video of chair throwing incident
- Redner's daughter arrested for prostitution, bond set at $4,500
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