The Gay Bars of Tijuana Show the Cy's Evolvg LGBTQ Scene | PUNCH

Contents:

• THE BT GAY BARS MEXI CY
• “SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS!” GAY TIJUANA
• LOVG AND PARTYG AT CHI: 'THE BT LATO GAY BAR' MONTEBELLO
• GAY MEXI TRAVEL GUI
• MEXIN AMERIN FAY RTRANT — AND ONLY GAY BAR ON BEAN HILL — MAKG A COMEBACK
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

THE BT GAY BARS MEXI CY

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In this list of unmissable gay clubs, you'll fd everythg om the classic Tom’s Leather Bar – a darg and exhibnist optn sce the 1990s – and Zona Rosa’s preppy club, Kky, plete wh gogos and strippers to the classic La Purísima, named on multiple ocsns as one of the lol LGBTQ muny’s favoure hangouts and even a uple spots where straight folks are wele too.

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.

“SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS!” GAY TIJUANA

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LOVG AND PARTYG AT CHI: 'THE BT LATO GAY BAR' MONTEBELLO

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.

GAY MEXI TRAVEL GUI

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. Sodome is Mexi Cy's posht gay sna wh a bar, sna, steam room, maze, dark room, foam room, dance floor and weekly events.

MEXIN AMERIN FAY RTRANT — AND ONLY GAY BAR ON BEAN HILL — MAKG A COMEBACK

gaypl has been to and reviewed Sodome Bath Hoe. Woven to gay Tijuana, on the razor’s edge of the red-light district to the north, is a wars of that threat and others, and an entrenched sire to fet them. As the rabowre would suggt, there are plenty of gay bars Tijuana.

The cy do, however, have a rich history of gay male mobilizatn, chronicled a 2019 dissertatn by social scientist Jse Anguiano of Wtern Michigan Universy. The movement began the 1970s; Plaza Santa Cecilia, today a vibrant gay statn, served as one of the earlit meetg s for the cy’s gay male liberatn groups. Anguiano wr about Tijuana’s first official Pri march 1995, after a hateful rponse to an unofficial march over a earlier: In 1983, spectators hurled eggs and sults om the siwalks at a group of 30 gay men marchg for their rights.

But wh metro San Diego and s flourishg queer life ls than a half-hour to the north—the Hillcrt neighborhood, which is the cy's thrivg gay district, is home to two lbian bars—Tijuana n still feel like ’s laggg behd.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

The scene today reflects gay Tijuana’s male-centric history.

On the other si of the plaza, Avenida Revolución, the gay artery of downtown, puls to life wh electro beats om the dance floors of Premier Men’s Club and Rubiks. Any gay bars that they might vis were centered around cis men.