Help Save Pole Kisses: A Safe Haven I’ve Fought to Keep Alive

I’m Destiny. I’m a single mom to a nonverbal autistic son, a pole dancer, and the heart behind Pole Kisses a queer, sex worker friendly pole, bungee, and aerial studio in North Las Vegas.

This studio was never part of a business plan. It came to me in crisis. When the former owners were about to close its doors, I stepped in - not because I had the money, but because I had the vision. A vision for a space that felt like home for people who are constantly told they don’t belong anywhere. A space for healing, liberation, and joy - for strippers, for misfits, for queer folks, for people like me.

I had no savings. No investors. No funding. Just my former partner and I dancing at the club, and putting everything we made back into the studio - to keep it open, keep it breathing, and keep it growing.

I took over operations, made a private agreement to buy out the business, and have been doing everything I can to make it sustainable. In just six months, I’ve increased revenue by over 150%, built a growing membership, and held space for people to come cry, laugh, dance, and feel safe for the first time in a long time.

But I’m drowning.

I’m behind on rent. On payroll. On the payments I owe to the previous owners. I’ve now been doing this alone, with no capital, while raising my son and trying to keep a roof over our heads.

And now, I’m at risk of losing everything - just as I’m getting so close to finally securing funding that would change everything. I’ve been working on my credit, applying for loans, and building toward stability. I’m closer than I’ve ever been to real support. But I need time. And I don’t have it unless I ask for help.

This studio means everything to me and to the people who come here. It’s more than fitness, it’s community, it’s survival, it’s freedom. And I can’t let it go. Not after everything I’ve poured into it.

So I’m humbling myself and asking: if this space has ever impacted you, if you believe in queer, BIPOC, sex worker led businesses, if you want to see us win - please donate. Every dollar helps. Every share helps.

Pole Kisses deserves to live. And I’m doing everything in my power to make sure it does.

With love,

D