Fal Laguna Beach vtage gay bar The Anchor Le set to close – Orange County Register

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• ADONIS GAY BAR SA SILANG, CAVE NAGBAS NA?
• ADONIS GAY BAR
• CLUB ADONISENTERTAMENT BAR WH DRAG QUEENS, DANCERS, BARET SHOWS.MANILAMENUHOTELSHOTEL DISUNTSBARSDANCE CLUBSMASSAGESNASTOURSCY GUIGAY MAPCLUB ADONIS

ADONIS GAY BAR SA SILANG, CAVE NAGBAS NA?

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Thankfully the world has evolved and although gay bars will always be need, wanted and loved, ’s now not unnscnable for everyone, no matter of who they love, to party, drk and enjoy the night together, unr the same roof.

There was a time when Laguna Beach had s staple gay bars, which were a much need prence durg their reign of the beach cy, and s very possible that the future, more will make their way back to Laguna Beach, but until then, the cy is filled wh optns galore. In 1926, a liquor store and a hardware store opened on the rner of Pearl Street and Pacific Coast Highway, and 1946 beme s current namake The Seahorse, which was actually Laguna Beach’s first gay bar.

CLUB ADONISENTERTAMENT BAR WH DRAG QUEENS, DANCERS, BARET SHOWS.MANILAMENUHOTELSHOTEL DISUNTSBARSDANCE CLUBSMASSAGESNASTOURSCY GUIGAY MAPCLUB ADONIS

For many years, operated as a secret waterg hole for the lol gay muny until was eventually turned back to retail as Laguna Auto Parts…and now ’s back to s origal roots. An entire block of South Coast Highway hosted gay bars, the most famo perhaps beg the r Boom Boom Room, which served s last drk 15 years ago as folks danced on the bar and the crowd went wild. The Anchor Le is the last of Laguna’s vtage gay bars, a fixture sce 1958.

“My brother Jimmy bought this bar 18 years ago to save what was left of gay Laguna, ” said sister Wendy Nelson, stg at the bar the dim afternoon light. Bs was tough even before COVID, as Laguna’s land valu skyrocketed and much of s gay muny moved east to the Palm Sprgs area. But ’s happeng all over the natn, not jt Laguna: Half of Amerin gay bars disappeared between 2002 and 2021, acrdg to listg data piled by Greggor Mattson, profsor and chair of soclogy at Oberl College.

“I sometim like to thk about gay bars as archiv, ” Mattson said. “We n look no further than the recently proposed natnwi ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, ” Grasso said by email. Laws like the create credibly unsafe environments, not only for LGBTQ+ children (who are eher forced to stay the closet and velop psychologil stras om ternalized homophobia or experience potential abe and harm for g out) but also for LGBTQ+ adults who are spegoated by right-leang policians at every turn stat like Florida and Texas but also lolly Orange County.