The fight to save the Boulevard, Pasana's only gay bar - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• GREAT GAY BARS AND RTRANTS TO VIS SOUTH FLORIDA
• GAY BARS AREN’T DISAPPEARG; THEY’RE CHANGG
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE ONLY GAY BAR PASANA
• THE SALOON, A MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, DROPS ANHSER-BCH BEERS FOLLOWG THE BUD LIGHT CONTROVERSY
• “I THK WE HAVE A GAY BAR”
• VODA SPA & SNATHE MOST POPULAR GAY SNA MOSW.MOSWMENUBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASCISE CLUBSSERVICCY GUIGAY MAPRSIA INXVODA SPA & SNA
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

GREAT GAY BARS AND RTRANTS TO VIS SOUTH FLORIDA

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.

GAY BARS AREN’T DISAPPEARG; THEY’RE CHANGG

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.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

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. 1119 Loct Street, Gayborhood.

WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE

Owned by JonCarl Lachman, the chef behd the East Passyunk favore (and sadly soon-to-be-closed) Noord, Wkel is a statn bnch spot the Gayborhood. Philly’s olst gay bar has been an in for the leather muny sce 1982 and is home to the Mx.

Great Gay Bars and Rtrants to Vis South Florida. This gay-iendly der boasts an extensive selectn of illy named dish such as the ka’monawannalaya fish dip and the Ivana Hooker burger topped wh bl chee and ban, pl bowls, salads, wraps, sandwich, and more. Self-scribed as Ameri’s most “popular gay sports bar, ” guts n tch the game on one of the many flatscreen TVs si the space while dg on fort food, sippg on ld beverag, or playg bar gam like darts.

Partake a daily happy hour, channel your ner Freddie Mercury or Gloria Gaynor on s Monday and Tuday karaoke nights, put your knowledge to the tt on Tuday trivia nights, and get that workout wh dance rd to the wee hours of the night ever Sunday. This gay-iendly hotel featur a popular bar wh daily events that are open to the public.

THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE ONLY GAY BAR PASANA

Hôtel Gaytherg. This is also the first time Huynh will own a bar, but a ago he was a bartenr at some of the most proment gay bars San Francis, mostly the Castro district.

THE SALOON, A MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR, DROPS ANHSER-BCH BEERS FOLLOWG THE BUD LIGHT CONTROVERSY

When he took stock thgs, Huynh said, “I realized that the bt tim my life were the Castro, beg myself, beg gay and ee. “I would love to make a quote unquote Castro of Oakland, ” he said, “where people flow om bar to bar all night, a real gay scene right here Oakland.

There was a moment readg Greggor Mattson’s book, Who Needs Gay Bars?, where I found myself beg credibly fensive. One of the 130 gay bar owners he terviewed is bemoang how his ctomers are no longer ntent to hang wh iends and nverse over a few drks.

“I THK WE HAVE A GAY BAR”

Gay bar patrons want entertament, he says — drag shows, TV watch parti, activi. The differenc are sort of the pot of Mattson’s book, a chronicle of gay bars 39 stat across the untry and throughout Amerin history. “There is no one answer to the qutn ‘Who needs gay bars?

’ bee there is no one ‘who, ’ no one set of ‘needs, ’ and no one kd of ‘gay bar, ’” wr Mattson, a soclogy profsor at Oberl. There are strip clubs and dive bars and f and cktail bars servg both gay and straight people. Gay bars are not a monolh.

VODA SPA & SNATHE MOST POPULAR GAY SNA MOSW.MOSWMENUBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASCISE CLUBSSERVICCY GUIGAY MAPRSIA INXVODA SPA & SNA

But the state of the gay bar has bee a prsg ncern.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

Mattson wr that 50 percent of the untry’s gay bars closed between 2012 and 2021, and that the difficulti have not been evenly felt. But even light of all the threats, gay bars are figurg out how to fill hol muny needs, how to pete wh apps and apathy, how to balance muny tradns wh more clive valu.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

And what’s more, the “gay bar” as exists popular imagatn — an exclive space by and for eher gay men or women — has never reprented what gay bars actually are. “Gay bars are not dyg, they’re evolvg. Eater: A big pot you keep g back to is the nebulo ncept of a gay bar.

After all the terviews, are you any closer to beg able to fe what a “gay bar” is? So n a fe be a gay bar? Or if a nightclub has a gay night at least once a week, then I’m willg to say that’s a place where queer culture flourish.

My favore gay bar Cleveland closed, and I was really stunned at the reactn. Bee some of the lol LGBTQ+ folks were like, “Yeah, we don’t need gay bars anymore.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

” I regnized that the were maly cis whe gay men who are middle class or above. When I went lookg, I wanted to know, is [the closg of gay bars] part of a trend?

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

So then I set out to make a database g the Damron guis and to fd out, were gay bars gog away? And then I wanted to know om people who’ve been volved wh gay bars over the last 20 or so years, what have they seen?

Nobody had talked to gay bar owners.

In the book you wre that certa kds of gay bars, like lbian bars or more “cisy” gay bars, are closg at a faster clip than other typ.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

What sort of gay bars do you see thrivg right now?

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

You mentned that a lot of people have been sayg that they personally don’t need gay bars anymore bee they feel wele anywhere. What do you make of that tensn and the issu that arise wh what we expect out of gay bars vers what they n reasonably offer?