Wt Hollywood’s Historic Gay Nightclub the Abbey Is Up for Sale - Eater LA

Contents:

• WT HOLLYWOOD ADDS NEW GAY BAR WH OR BAR WEHO OPENG THIS WEEK
• NEW WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR, THE OR BAR, IS HIRG AND OPENG SOON
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• GOLD COAST, WEHO’S INIC ‘DIVE BAR,’ IS THE FOURTH GAY BAR TO CLOSE ON SANTA MONI BLVD.

WT HOLLYWOOD ADDS NEW GAY BAR WH OR BAR WEHO OPENG THIS WEEK

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.

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. 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.

NEW WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR, THE OR BAR, IS HIRG AND OPENG SOON

The Cy of Wt Hollywood wel a new gay bar.

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

Fashn Police -host Gee Kotspoulos teamed up wh Circ of Books owner Rob Novger and Fire Hot Yoga founr Schtag, to open the new gay bar that lerally means “Gold” French–a nod to the beloved Gold Coast space which closed for good September 2020 after servg the muny for 39 years. It is beg billed as a gay bar by the owners who have acknowledged the history of the space and are not shyg away om the cisy reputatn of the famo Vasele Alley loted their backyard.

“We don’t want gay bars to bee obsolete, ” Kotspoulos told Variety when he announced his latt enavor last year. The Or Bar​ – a new up-and-g Wt Hollywood gay bar openg at the former Gold Coast Bar​ space, at 8228 Santa Moni Blvd., is currently hirg and hopg to open soon as early as September. It beme the fourth gay bar to close on Santa Moni Boulevard durg the panmic.

GOLD COAST, WEHO’S INIC ‘DIVE BAR,’ IS THE FOURTH GAY BAR TO CLOSE ON SANTA MONI BLVD.

“We don’t want gay bars to bee obsolete, ” Kotspoulos told Variety last year. The year is 1981, and if you were a homosexual man (mostly whe) lookg for some fun the unrporated part of Los Angel County unofficially known as Wt Hollywood, then you had plenty to choose om a long list of nightlife gay bars, diss, rtrants, bathho and gay-owned bs terg to the gay-gay-gay!

The image you see above, shared by WeHo history buff Mark Donnell, shows a double spread ad taken om a Data Boy Magaze 1981, which was one of the gay rags that uld be found lol WeHo bs stacked next to an issue of Frontiers Magaze.