One of Los Angel' last historic gay bars, The Other Si was a “bt iend” to a generatn of LGBT bar goers who were left wonrg: Where will we go now?
Contents:
- GAY BARS OF LA: THEN AND NOW
- A HISTORY OF L.A.’S GAY BAR SCENE, TOLD MATCHBOOKS
- EARLY GAY CLUBS LA
- LA’S GAY PAST: THIS IS LGBT HISTORY, TOLD SIX LANDMARKS
- A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S
GAY BARS OF LA: THEN AND NOW
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Gay bars and sex clubs, most of them now closed. -based queer artist who was a regular at a number of the spots worked briefly as a barback at Cuffs, a major gay hangout of the recent “was credibly dark and super cisey, ” Jony rells.
“As Silver Lake — and the whole landspe of gay Hollywood and the east si — changed so much I always had this ia my head of turng the place back to Cuffs for one night, ” he says.
A HISTORY OF L.A.’S GAY BAR SCENE, TOLD MATCHBOOKS
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The early ’90s, there were more than a dozen [gay bars] on the east si.
”The closg of many east-si gay bars n be blamed, part, on gentrifitn’s effect on rents.
EARLY GAY CLUBS LA
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It also n be argued that the ongog expansn of jt what queerns n mean uld have ma a segment of gay bars, which thrived a sort of self-intified exclivy, obsolete. “I’m not one of them, ” Jony says, “but a lot of gay men my age and a generatn olr like to talk about the days of male-only spac and what that meant to them. ” Jony is pleased that anyone who intifi as male — trans men, for example — are now more wele at gay bars than they were the past.
LA’S GAY PAST: THIS IS LGBT HISTORY, TOLD SIX LANDMARKS
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A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S
’s gay bar scene was headier, wilr and perhaps more excgly illic. Back the mid-1980s, I ed to go wh iends to a happeng gay dis spot LA, a place lled Catch One.