52 Essential Gay Bars And Nights Around Los Angel | LAist

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• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• 52 ESSENTIAL GAY BARS AND NIGHTS AROUND LOS ANGEL
• LOS ANGEL GAY BARS
• BT GAY BARS IN LOS ANGEL
• GAY LA: BT GAY CLUB NIGHTS LOS ANGEL
• WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

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 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.

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It’s the perfect place for gay men to meet on the Eastsi. GAMEBOI® is the longt nng and most regnized 18+ gay Asian dance party drawg thoands of atten LA and SF.

Utterly breathtakg, this inic tablishment was crowned LOGO's "Bt Gay Bar the World, " makg a mt-see LA’s gay nightlife scene. When opened 1973, Jewel’s Catch One was the natn’s first black gay and lbian dis.

52 ESSENTIAL GAY BARS AND NIGHTS AROUND LOS ANGEL

This historic Spanish flamen and tapas bar Sunset Boulevard, while not a gay venue per se, El Cid hosts some fabulo gay-themed shows that are not to be missed. A low-key, cise-y dive bar Mother Lo claims to be the olst gay bar Wt Hollywood. Opened at 4th and Broadway May 2015, Precct scrib self as a "rock n roll gay bar" Downtown L.

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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.

“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.

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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. ” 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.

Asian/Pacific Gays and Friends.

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By Roy Liebman, Publitns ChairAsian/Pacific Gays and Friends (A/PGF), one of the olst ntuoly-existg gay Asian anizatns the Uned Stat has reached a great tone---s 30th anniversary. It was born out of a profound need for gay Asians to have a fom which to discs problems and needs of mutual ncern, and to look for solutns to the issu facg them.

Among the were their perceived stat as sometim ls than full members of the gay muny at large, and the differenc between Asian-Amerins born the Uned Stat and those g here om Asian untri.

WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE

Prr to 1980, throughout the gay scene of Los Angel, Asian men were rarely seen at most of the bars, clubs and bathho that nstuted the social scene for gay men. A few venu, such as the River Club and Mugi’s, were the only plac for groups of gay Asians to meet and, needls to say, they were not venu for ser discsn.

As a rult, there did not exist a great sense of muny among gay Asian men. Many felt ia of formg an anizatn for gay Asians had been discsed for some years before 1980, but an important impet me om gay liberatn pneer Morris Kight, who then had an Asian partner. And so 1980 the anizatn was born as Asian/Pacific Lbians and Gays (A/PLG).

Other major goals clud buildg solidary between Asian gay men and lbians and between native Asian-Amerins and those who had emigrated om other untri. This realy fally led to the name beg changed to s current form, Asian/Pacific Gays and Friends, the onset of the AIDS epimic shortly after the foundg of A/PLG, the entire gay muny had to put their differenc asi and e together to fight the surge. Other problems gay Asian anizatns me to beg but A/PGF ntu to flourish.

It now featur more monthly activi than any other gay Asian anizatn the Uned Stat and ntu to add more.

It will ntue to be a place where gay Asians and their iends n e together to share both their unique and mon bonds. As an example of the valu of A/PGF, the first statement reads: “To provi a support system for gay men and women of Asian/Pacific Islanr scent their relatns wh their fai and muni so as to unrstand and accept each other wh rg and pri.

***The thor of this article is bted to Eric Wat’s 2002 book The Makg of a Gay Asian Communy: an Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angel for much of the rmatn about the history of Asian/Pacific Gays and Roy Liebman, Publitns Chair. A/PGF is an non-prof, social and tnal group tablished for gay Asians and iends who share an tert Asian cultur and experienc.

See A/PGF Marchg In The Gay Pri Para. Sunday, June 4th is the Wt Hollywood Gay Pri Para.

We’ve piled a list of some of the bt gay bars and their acpanyg nights Los Angel County.

Logo has lled The Abbey “The Bt Gay Bar the World.

And The Abbey’s probably the most straight-iendly gay bar around (hello, straight bartenrs and bachelorette parti). Though some of more jad gay Angelenos will sff at the Abbey’s fx-fancy dér and normie vib, you n’t ny ’s got a lot gog for . For stance: How many other gay bars do you know that serve bnch?

Fita Canta looks like a gay Wahoo’s Fish Tas and serv food, while Revolver and Micky’s are more of dance clubs. Flamg SaddlThis a’t your grandpa’s gay wboy bar.