Garn Grove, once a thrivg gay hub, will fly LGBTQ ‘pri flag’ – Orange County Register

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•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• GAY BARS ORANGE COUNTY, CA: THE COMPLETE LIST (2023)
• THE FRAT HOE IS THE LAST GAY BAR STANDG GARN GROVE
• GAY MEN - FRIENDS OF THE OC FRAT HOE BAR
•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• GAY BARS GARN GROVE
• GAY MEN - FRIENDS OF THE OC FRAT HOE BAR
•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

 CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

It’s a Wednday afternoon at the Frat Hoe.Bottl plastic crat clk as they’re hefted om tcks and dolli and rried to the stockroom of the dimly-l bar tucked between a church and a multipurpose lot.Birthday party ratns — gold and whe balloon centerpiec joed wh gold foil stars — om a recent celebratn still hang the ma room.The place don’t open until 8 p.m., but Shelly Heier and Cris McKnight — “two straight chicks nng a gay bar,” they quip — are bit the afternoons, gettg the place clean, stocked and ready for patrons.Though historilly nservative Garn Grove — as recently as last Tuday the Cy Council rejected a motn to fly a rabow flag at Cy Hall, but agreed to light up a clock tower the same lors for Pri Month — don’t have the welg reputatn of, say, Laguna Beach, Long Beach or Santa Ana, once boasted as many as 15 gay bars, acrdg to a recent documentary.They had nam like the Mug, the Happy Hour, DOK Wt, the Upbeat, Rumour Hazz and the Knotty Keg.

There was also Climax, Proud Mary, Stage Door, the Old Bavarian Inn, DJ’s Distheque, Tex’s Corner, Tiki Hut and the Gasp.The Frat Hoe is the last.“Everybody knows when you’re gog to Garn Grove and you’re gay [that] you’re gog to the Frat Hoe bee that’s the only thg open, gay, Garn Grove,” said Monique Chantel Dupre, a drag performer featured the “Frat Hoe” documentary, which bowed at the recent Newport Beach Film Ftival.Documentarian Nancy Nguyen stumbled to her subject matter.“I’d known for a while that there was a gay bar a few blocks om my hoe, and I thought was jt so bizarre that there was a church next to ,” she said.

GAY BARS ORANGE COUNTY, CA: THE COMPLETE LIST (2023)

But, eventually they stopped g at all after she kept rejectg their offers.She promised her father that she’d “keep open and keep gay.”Her father, who me out later life, wanted to create a space where the LGBTQ muny uld eely associate a unty where many didn’t accept them.“Back the day, [LGBTQ people] didn’t have nowhere to go, so this was a safe place and a safe haven for the gay people to e,” Heier said. One person would leave and they’d let another one , that’s how by ed to be back the day.”The days, their ctomers tend to be majory Lato men, and while they ed to be open 365 days of the year, they’re now closed Tudays bee there isn’t enough bs.Datg apps, social media, latg real tate sts sparked by gentrifitn, and creasg acceptance of the gay muny are leadg to ls patronage of tradnal gay bars, which mt also pete wh the predomantly straight bars’ gay night promotns.Heier said that if wasn’t for the fact that she owns the buildg, the Frat Hoe might not still be bs.“We stay open maly bee of our longevy and the history that we have,” Heier said.The few tradnal gay bars around the unty that rema have bee, many ways, isolated pockets of the LGBTQ muny, acrdg to Lus Hilrbrand, a film and media studi profsor at UC Irve. “Statistilly, the bars have dimished, but if you go to bars different ci, they’re actually crowd at night.”A history of L.A.’s gay bar scene, told matchbooks »Sarah Nguyen, who was named Ms.

Orange County Gay Pri last year, said she didn’t know her lol history until she began workg across the unty le — at the LGBTQ Center Long Beach.“One of the volunteers was tellg me their experienc on Garn Grove Boulevard, and how ed to be like [Wt Hollywood], or even much larger than WeHo back the day,” she said.

Orange County Gay Pri last year and is popularly known as “Johnny Wt Street,” after Laguna Beach’s famoly gay beach — said he didn’t learn about this queer history until he was olr.“It’s kd of sad bee you hear the legendary stori of Garn Grove beg as gay as Long Beach and ...

THE FRAT HOE IS THE LAST GAY BAR STANDG GARN GROVE

Oh my gosh,’ ” he said.Jonathan Alexanr, a UCI English profsor, said that historilly bars were one of the few plac that gay and lbian people uld meet public spac.“To fd each other,” he said.Bee cross-drsg and dancg wh same-sex partners was illegal much of the untry before the gay civil rights movement took hold, the bars often had to disguise themselv, explaed Alexanr.

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– Shelly Heier promised her dad, Ted Heier, that she would keep his bs open and gay as long as she n. Her father was an openly gay bsman who opened the Frat Hoe 1985.

Currently, the Frat Hoe is the last gay bar and nightclub standg Garn Grove.

GAY MEN - FRIENDS OF THE OC FRAT HOE BAR

At one pot, there were 15 gay bars town. “My dad always wanted to give people a place that they felt safe and fortable to be gay. “Two straight chicks nng a gay bar.

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Garn Grove, Calif., a quiet town historilly nservative Orange County, once had more than 15 gay bars. The bar is now owned by his dghter Shelly Heier, who operat along wh manager Cris McKnight; they scribe themselv as "two straight chicks nng a gay bar. Categori: Bars, Dance Clubs, Gay Bars, Nightlife.

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Garn Grove, a cy once home to a thrivg gay scene that’s all but disappeared, will raise a rabow flag next month honor of LGBTQ Pri. “Garn Grove had, back the day, more gay bars than Wt Hollywood, ” said Councilwoman Kim Nguyen, who has been askg the cy to fly the pri flag sce 2019. That’s what prompted Nguyen to raise the issue aga, on May 11, when she ask for a flag to be flown by the cy begng June 1, which marks pri month for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people.

Councilman Phat Bui, who 2019 objected to the cy raisg the gay pri flag, was absent for Tuday’s meetg. Garn Grove once was home to many bs terg to the gay and lbian muny, wh as many as 15 open durg the 1970s and ’80s, acrdg to LGBTQ advot. “It was fely a thrivg gay scene, bars everywhere, ” said Randy Pqueira, 65, a Garn Grove rint who said he was the first paid employee of the Gay Communy Servic Center of Orange County, which was loted Garn Grove before moved to Santa Ana.

Durg that perd the cy sought to close s gay bars, many of which were along Garn Grove Boulevard, acrdg to advot who said police stg operatns at the time targeted bar patrons.