HELLA GAY: Back From Outer Space | Crybaby, Oakland, CA | September 17, 2022

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• HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY | OAKLAND
• HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY
• HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY | OAKLAND
• HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY
• HELLA GAY: BACK FROM OUTER SPACE
• .LIVE, UP-CLOSE, HELLA GAY
• THIS WEEK OAKLAND: THE RETURN OF HELLA GAY AT CRYBABY, AND LIVE THE LREL
• HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY
• .HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY AT THE UPTOWN
• HELLA VEGAN EATS IS REBORN OAKLAND AS GAY 4 U
• HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY
• HELLA GAY: BACK FROM OUTER SPACE

HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY | OAKLAND

Started by a judge and attorney, Club BNB has been around for 35 years and is the largt gay and lbian nightclub the Bay Area. Thought to be the olst gay bar the untry— ti wh New Orleans’ bar Cafe Lafte, whose earlit rerds date to 1933, when prohibn end—the Whe Horse is a iendly neighborhood bar wh a diverse clientele and no-ills atmosphere.

Happeng every send Saturday of the month, Hella Gay is Oakland’s first dance party for everyone – if you’re hella queer, hella straight, or whatever the hell you are, this party is for you. Hella Gay Dance Party Saturday, The Uptown Nightclub, 1928 Telegraph Ave, $5. Happeng every send Saturday of the month, Hella Gay is Oakland's first dance party for everyone - if you're hella queer, hella straight, or whatever the hell you are, this party is for you.

HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY

It’s a month-long celebratn of the diversy and cultur of our Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer muni. On Friday night, the anizers are hostg the “It was a hella gay night” at 7th Wt. Big Gay Trivia at Port Bar.

HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY | OAKLAND

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After a long travel outer space, HELLA GAY returns to 1928 Telegrpah ave. Hella Gay was already a pretty happeng party when moved to Oakland’s Uptown Nightclub Augt.

HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY

Hae Yong M is a Korean-born artist who dreamed up “Hella Gay” as a fancy birthday party for her iend Gigi Alicea (aka DJ G Star).

HELLA GAY: BACK FROM OUTER SPACE

She learned her craft unr the spic of Mellanique Robichex (aka DJ Black), who me to Hella Gay first as a celebry gut and later as a -nspirator. In Augt, 400 people showed up at Hella Gay.

Some chalk up to the vacuum of women-iendly LGBT dance events Oakland (M surmis that the female-to-male rat at Hella Gay is better than two-to-one). Some cred supply and mand, sce Oakland appears to have a huge LGBT populatn and very ltle gay astcture.

“We’re flyerg all different plac — not jt gay plac — and anyone who’s not timidated should go. At this pot, everyone wants a piece of Hella Gay.

.LIVE, UP-CLOSE, HELLA GAY

M says that iends have buttonholed her for months wh new ias, the most viable of which was a “Hella Gay Live” edn. They’ll hold the first Hella Gay Live this Friday, March 5, at the New Parish (579 18th St., Oakland).

THIS WEEK OAKLAND: THE RETURN OF HELLA GAY AT CRYBABY, AND LIVE THE LREL

And you don’t have to be gay to get down.

HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY

The return of Hella Gay at Crybaby. The Hella Gay dance party was a staple at the Uptown Nightclub for over a .

When the venue shuttered September 2020, Hella Gay and untls other parti were left whout a venue and unsure of when the panmic would allow them to return to the dance floor.

After a long two-year hiat, the crew is “back om outer space” at CryBaby, the new club that opened the former Uptown space, wh sets by DJs Homo Fongo, ELEDA, and Kare Bear. Uptown, Nightlife, Gay Bars, Bars.

.HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY AT THE UPTOWN

The Hella Gay Dance party tak place every third Saturday of the month at The Uptown Nightclub.

Fans of Hella Vegan Eats, a favore for eaters seekg fort food the East Bay, will be happy to know that a new eratn of that rtrant has opened up Oakland as Gay 4 U. Sofi Espice, formerly known as Silvi Peligras, is nng Gay 4 U at Garn Hoe which also hosts Japane ied chicken and izakaya rtrant Aburaya-Go for weekday lunch. Fally late October, Gay 4 U was born.

The menu at Gay 4 U, which is open for dner Thursday through Monday and bnch on the weekends, will reflect some of the “fun, salty” foods that Espice associat wh the Hella Vegan era but also some new healthier optns. Also new at Gay 4 U is Espice’s offer of a ee meal for any trans folks of lor. Sce Gay 4 U is still a new venture for Espice who’s still sortg out the fancials of nng this new operatn as a one-person show, they’re askg folks to support on GoFundMe until they get settled .

HELLA VEGAN EATS IS REBORN OAKLAND AS GAY 4 U

Oakland's newt gay bar, Town Bar & Lounge, is a fay affair. "I'm so happy bee I've been a longtime Oakland rint and we didn't have very many optns, " Joshua Huynh, a gay Vietname Amerin man, said about his dream of openg a gay bar and lounge fashned an updated 1920s style that is now a realy.

HELLA GAY DANCE PARTY

The Bay Area Reporter went to Town to check out Oakland's newt gay nightlife spot April 29.

Addnally, he feels LGBTQ people and alli are out supportg gay bs.

Style, taste, and munyDeAndre Sloan, an Oakland native, who was at Town for his send time sce opened, was also glad to see a new gay bar the "bright si of the Bay.

HELLA GAY: BACK FROM OUTER SPACE

""I'm glad to see bee growg up we didn't have a lot of this gog on, " said Sloan, a Black gay man.

Uptown's anchor gay clubs Club BNB and Club 21 closed. Then COVID-19 turned the stgglg gay nightlife to a ghost town overnight. They also have fun nam: Afternoon Delight, Fashn Forward, and Green Ey Envy Me, to name a C, a gay Black man who was hangg out at the bar wh Sloan, sippg their Ami-Gos, was exced about Town.

Sloan also noted the mic was cent g om the state-of-the-art sound Oaklanrs are g out of years of the panmic to a hostile anti-gay environment.