The Cy of Wt Hollywood wel a new gay bar. OR Bar WeHo, loted at 8228 Santa Moni Blvd., is havg a soft openg this week on Thursday, December 15, 2022, om 6pm-12pm. Co-owner Stephanie Schtag, tells WEHO TIMES there has been no prs release announcg their openg and that they may stay open later
Contents:
- 'REAL HOEWIV,' BUT MAKE GAY(ER): MTV TRODUC 'REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO'
- JT HOW GAY IS WT HOLLYWOOD?
- WEHO BEME A GAY MEC. HERE’S THE HISTORY BEHD THAT (AND OTHER HEADL)
- WEHO PRI FTIVI KICK OFF TODAY, ONE OF SEVERAL GAY PRI ACTIVI PLANNED L.A. AREA THIS MONTH
- WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
- WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE
- GOLD COAST, THE LEGENDARY WEHO GAY BAR, RIS OM THE DEAD
- GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL
- WT HOLLYWOOD ADDS NEW GAY BAR WH OR BAR WEHO OPENG THIS WEEK
- WEHO’S GAY BARS ARE GETTG READY TO RE-OPEN
- ‘THE REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO’ IS A COLOSSAL GAY NIGHTMARE
- THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
- THE ABBEY IS FOR SALE; WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUB SEEKS NEW OWNER
- THE ABBEY, THE LEGENDARY WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR, IS FOR SALE
'REAL HOEWIV,' BUT MAKE GAY(ER): MTV TRODUC 'REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO'
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JT HOW GAY IS WT HOLLYWOOD?
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Instantly regnizable thanks to artist Chris Burn's Instagram-ready outdoor "Urban Light" streetlamp stallatn, The Los Angel County Mm of Art (LACMA) is the wt ast's largt art mm and bis s ep permanent llectn featur cuttg edge, novative, and multimedia tourg exhibns: openly gay Black artist Keh Wiley's inic portra of Barack Obama and Amy Sherald's Michelle Obama will be on display om November 5, 2021 until January 2, 2022. A WeHo landmark, Circ of Books closed 2019—a Netflix documentary chronicl s storied and very LGBTQ past—but drag queen and gay porn film director Chi Chi LaRue revived the space as Chi Chi LaRue's Circ 2020 as a lorful, upmarket store that clus adult goods, accsori, and well-curated selectns of ffee-table tom and lol art. Hollywood skre gu to the stars sce the 1970s (clients have clud Barbra Streisand, Ellen DeGener, Cher, Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Elton John, David Bowie, and Kylie Mogue), the Denmark-born, openly gay Ole Henriksen opened a namake WeHo Spa off Sunset Boulevard 1998, and remas a favore, discreet, zy oasis for sk and body pamperg treatments wh his excellent le of products today.
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WEHO BEME A GAY MEC. HERE’S THE HISTORY BEHD THAT (AND OTHER HEADL)
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A few highlights clu openly gay executive chef St Jon' Mederranean-fluenced vegan rtrant Crossroads Kchen, the stunng rooftop seafood venue Catch L. The upg realy seri follows six gay iends Wt Hollywood, cludg celebry stylist Brad Gorki and sger Todrick st of "The Real Friends of WeHo, " om left: Curtis Haton, Dorión Rend, Brad Gorki, Todrick Hall, Jaym Vghan and Joey Keily / Courty of MTVJan. 5, 2023, 9:36 PM UTCGay men, who have arguably been the lifeblood of “The Real Hoewiv” fan base, will fally get a drama-filled realy TV show they n ll their own.
20 “The Real Friends of WeHo, ” which will follow six gay iends livg Los Angel' premiere gayborhood, Wt Hollywood. The report suggts that between 30% and 40% of the cy’s adults are gay men.
WEHO PRI FTIVI KICK OFF TODAY, ONE OF SEVERAL GAY PRI ACTIVI PLANNED L.A. AREA THIS MONTH
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Between 2012 and 2016, Wt Hollywood had an average of roughly 1, 200 unmarried gay male upl. Wt Hollywood had more unmarried gay male upl by far than Santa Moni (which had over 150 of them), Beverly Hills (ls than 50), and Culver Cy (ls than 50). Palm Sprgs, on the other hand, had more unmarried gay upl than Wt Hollywood, both total and per hoehold.
WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
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WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE
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WEHO’S GAY BARS ARE GETTG READY TO RE-OPEN
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A lot more queer spots — hotels, bars and other bs — started to open up WeHo, so much so that entreprenr and gay bar owner Bob Damran created gay guis the mid 1960s. 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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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.
THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
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”Wh more than 40% of rints intifyg as members of the LGBTQ muny, Wt Hollywood scrib self as beg home to one of the largt Pri celebratns Southern Gay Pri activi are also planned the L. Some fans will receive a memorative LGBTQ+ Dodger game team will also celebrate the life of former Dodger outfielr Glenn Burke, Major League Baseball’s first openly gay player. The Abbey, arguably the untry’s biggt and most famo gay bar Wt Hollywood, is officially on the market.
Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.
THE ABBEY IS FOR SALE; WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUB SEEKS NEW OWNER
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” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year.
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“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.