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Contents:

• SEATTLE GAY MEN'S GARNG MEETUP
• THE 10 BEST LONDON GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONDON
• ‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• THE GARN LAS VEGASLAS VEGASMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASCISE CLUBSTOURSCY GUIGAY MAPTHE GARN LAS VEGAS
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• RSIA'S LARGT GAY CLUB HAS SHUT DOWN

SEATTLE GAY MEN'S GARNG MEETUP

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Laat je d jaar verlein door Gay Garn Club! Kennis maken met Gay Garn Club kan door eenmalige troductie bij een van onze evenementen. “We are dog a gay bar for the LGBT muny here Boise, ” owner Rob Covert told BoiseDev.

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The openg of the dis the Garn and Gun Club hered a new mocratic era the cy; beforehand, blue bloods went to the Yacht Club; llege kids went to noisy bars on Gee; Ain Amerins, navy base employe, and gay men and women all went their separate ways to drk and meet. Black and whe, rich, poor straight and gay were wele; if you don’t like , the bylaws, read, don’t jo and don’t e . Dick read the handwrg on the wall when the chief of police told him that he had no trouble per se wh people “of the homosexual persuasn.

“It worked bee of the members, bee they wanted to work; the members of the club, gay and straight, whe and black, ma . What we’re aboutGay men the Seattle area gettg better nnected through garng, plants and horticulture. Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016.

Micky’s WeHo has long been a staple on Wt Hollywood’s strip of gay nightclubs and bars on Santa Moni Boulevard, known for s open-walled two-story buildg where passersby n see the party ragg om the street.

‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN

The venue is the only Latx gay bar LA that explicly ters to a gay and Mexin dience every night, not jt as a theme once a week. But ’s the perfect space to grab a workday bnch wh a lleague or for -workg ssns -hosted on Tudays wh Gay Asstrology. The origal Downtown gay bar, Jalis is a dive bar that ters to the Latx and Mexin LGBTQ muny.

Though Sweetwater isn’t officially known as a lbian bar, the humble tablishment has long been the go-to spot for queer women the lol gayborhood, which featur nearly half a dozen gay bars that le Broadway Long Beach.

One of Long Beach’s few, if not only, three-level gay bars, Executive Sue boasts a karaoke bar, vio gam, pool tabl for rent, and regular drag shows. Dubbed by KCET as Montebello’s bt Lato gay bar, Chi is the sister to Club Cobra, servg as a groundg se for the queer Latx muny the suburbs of East LA. It’s the perfect place for gay men to meet on the Eastsi.

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24 plac sorted by traveler favorBars & Clubs • Gay BarsTrafalgar Square / EmbankmentGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissTrafalgar Square / EmbankmentBars & Clubs • Gay BarsLeicter Square / Shaftbury AvenueWhat travelers are saygBier than expected but service was fast and iendly. Loted the heart of London, Comptons is a mt-vis gay pub that guarante an credible experience. Brilliant staff (pecially Jack, the fabulo bar manager and cktail maker), fabulo cktails and a relaxed atmosphere for all whether gay, straight or somethg else.

A beguilg, alternative London gay bar. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.

In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.

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” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor.

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“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.

” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.

In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.

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” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. Four inic Los Angel gay bars, toutg a bed history of 130 years, have permanently closed durg the panmic and many more have warned that they are on the brk of as nightlife gradually returns, some of the remag queer bars across southern California have rorted to crowdfundg a last-dch effort to stay afloat, warng that Covid-19 may brg about the end of historic stutns that have weathered the Aids crisis and multiple enomic panmic has permanently closed more than 100, 000 bars and rtrants across the Uned Stat but LA, which has been unr some form of lockdown rtrictns sce last March, the impact on nightclubs has been particularly LGBTQ+ bars shuttered Wt Hollywood last year, cludg Rage, a legendary nightclub that closed after 37 years, and Gold Coast, a 39-year-old dive bar down the street on Santa Moni boulevard.

Then January, as LA bee one of the worst Covid hotspots the natn, Oil Can Harry’s, a beloved gay untry bar Stud Cy, said was closg for good after half a century of hostg queer le dancg. ”Before Covid, gay bars were already disappearg LA and other US ci due to risg rents and gentrifitn, and as onle queer datg and hookup apps grew populary.

The venu most at risk of closg are often penntly owned and ter to more unrreprented groups, cludg Black and Lato muni, trans and genr-nonnformg crowds and workg-class neighborhoods, rearch has of the LA bars that are stgglg are loted outsi of the Wt Hollywood scene, which is known for terg to whe gay male crowds and is more touristy, wh owners turng to GoFundMe to make through the crisis.

RSIA'S LARGT GAY CLUB HAS SHUT DOWN

”Precct has long had an unpretent vibe that ma more fortable than many gay bars, Meatball said: “It’s dgy, smells like old alhol when you walk , and there’s somethg so fortg about this dark, seedy place – gay people love that stuff. ”New Jalis, also downtown, is one of the longt-nng Lato gay bars the regn, n by an immigrant uple who transformed to an LGBTQ+ venue the 1990s.

”Some of the Akbar owners’ younger iends and longtime patrons eventually nvced them to try crowdfundg before sellg their property and closg down, said Peter Alexanr, -owner: “It’s much more important than my own personal fancial wellbeg – all the plac are more than jt gay bars. The succs of the mpaign energized other queer bars to try to seek aid om supporters, though some say their bts are still signifintly greater than the donatns they’ve Alpuche, owner of Redle, a downtown gay bar, timated that the panmic has left him wh nearly $400, 000 of bt, part bee he has had to ntue payg for licens and perms. ”For the performers and gig workers who relied on gay bars to make ends meet, their return n’t e soon enough.

This moment, he add, remd him of the Aids crisis when gay clubs beme a ghost town until they eventually bounced back the 90s: “This jt ret everythg … I know we’ll e back.