Contents:
- AS RTRICTNS THAW, LONG BEACH’S GAY BARS ARE G BACK AFTER A DARK YEAR
- WHERE ARE THE NEW JERSEY GAY BEACH?
AS RTRICTNS THAW, LONG BEACH’S GAY BARS ARE G BACK AFTER A DARK YEAR
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.
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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.
WHERE ARE THE NEW JERSEY GAY BEACH?
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. Wele to G4G OC/Long BeachGay For Good OC/Long Beach mobiliz lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (LGBTQ+) and ally volunteers to promote diversy, foster cln and strengthen ti to the broar OC/Long Beach muny.
Gay For Good OC/Long Beach Learship TeamThe Gay For Good OC/Long Beach chapter thanks the anizatns for their genero support and shared mment to diversy, equy, cln and belongg. A brisk Monday eveng at the Mhaft, a 43-year-old gay bar suated on the Broadway Corridor, the slow bs hours of the tablishment belie the boistero jubilatn si—if only celebrated by five men lgh and nverse as they sip beer and vodka cranberry cktails. Though the COVID-19 panmic put immense stra on muni across the board, for the Long Beach gay muny, 2020 was pecially isolatg.
“I feel like we’ve lost a lot of nnectn, and this year has ma worse, ” said 46-year-old Ryan Schroer, who liv near the rtrictns on public gathergs pecially strgent on enclosed spac like bars, many of the cy’s gay bars were closed through the bulk of 2020 and to this year. Many owners feared for the survival of their bs, not jt for their own livelihoods, but for the sake of the gay muny, which has historilly found sanctuary and muny si their tablishments.