Where has Laguna’s gay dynamic gone? – Orange County Register

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The Rabow Club of Laguna Woods Village is anized to provi social opportuni for the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) muny ridg Laguna Woods Village. * laguna woods gay community *

It was bgo night at Ma Street Bar & Cabaret, Laguna Beach’s last gay club.

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The cy has always been progrsive polilly and fact was home to many unterculture and gay activists. The renegas ed to live the hillsis, which are now occupied by some of the richt celebri, performers and artists Ameri. * laguna woods gay community *

Gay bars around the natn have been disappearg, a trend attributed to greater social acceptance of gays, changg enomic forc and evolvg technology.

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Laguna Beach, particular, has had many obuari wrten for s once-thrivg gay scene. Skyrocketg real tate pric have kept young gays out of the cy and led a number of tablished gay rints to sh out and move to other ci, such as Palm Sprgs.

Now Cooley has to see whether the improvements will pay off – whether gays still want a place to ll their own. Whether a ty gay bar Laguna Beach n still thrive. Laguna Beach was once spoken of the same breath as Wt Hollywood, Fire Island and Provcetown, if a miature versn of those more famo gay enclav.

The Wt Street Beach was – and still is – renowned among gay vatners. Wh walkg distance of the spot was a one-block district that boasted a handful of gay bars and rtrants – Ltle Shrimp (which later beme Woody’s); Coast Inn, which hoed the legendary Boom Boom Room; and Ma Street Bar & Cabaret, which also went by Bounce.

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Bob Gentry, who served on the Cy Council om 1982 to 1994, was one of the first openly gay mayors the untry. Gay clubs, Laguna and elsewhere, were both pick-up jots and havens. “They were the first mon public spac for the gay muny, ” said Lus Hilrbrand, a UCI profsor of film and media studi who has wrten about the gay rights movement.

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“They were unrstood as social stutns, and much of the foundatnal gay rights activism was about claimg and fendg gay bars. Gentry relled holdg meetgs on mpaigns and anti-gay iativ some of Laguna Beach’s bars. “They kd of beme the gay mpaign headquarters for our liv, ” Gentry said.

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