Big Gay Hudson Valley - Queer & LGBTQ+ Life Upstate New York

Contents:

• SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS
• GAY & LBIAN BARS & CLUBS THE INLAND EMPIRE
• THE VALLEY MIGHT BE L.A.'S MOST GREGAR "GAYBORHOOD" OF ALL
• THE 5 BEST COACHELLA VALLEY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS COACHELLA VALLEY
• KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE ACH NFL
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• GAY SAN FRANCIS
• GAY USA

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS

7 thgs you didn’t know about the historic gay club Oil Can Harry’s.

GAY & LBIAN BARS & CLUBS THE INLAND EMPIRE

“ ‘Over the hill’ was a mon viewpot of Valley gays, ” Adks says an terview. Up Stairs Lounge fire largt mass murr of gay people US history. Here, Adks shar his gay memori about eight spac that were loted on Venture Boulevard.

THE VALLEY MIGHT BE L.A.'S MOST GREGAR "GAYBORHOOD" OF ALL

Apache Terrory, also know as The Apache, was a popular gay bar Stud Cy on Ventura Boulevard.

Later, the Ventura Boulevard lotn beme another gay bar, Everybody’s. “Keh’s Touch of Class was a gay rtrant wh a cktail lounge and rotatg mil performers like Wayne Moore and Brenda Silas Moore.

Wayne was a sger-songwrer who played all the gay piano bars, and Brenda was his ex-wife and baret performer, ” Adks says. Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr Bars & Clubs - Inland Empire Skip to ntentGay & Lbian Bars & Clubs the Inland EmpireHome/Drks/Gay & Lbian Bars & Clubs the Inland Empire Gay & Lbian Bars & Clubs the Inland EmpireInland Empire. 2016-01-07T21:09:29-08:00 The Inland Empire has plenty of gay and lbian (GLBT/LGBT) bars and night clubs.

THE 5 BEST COACHELLA VALLEY GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS COACHELLA VALLEY

Riversi Gay & Lbian Bars Club VIP – Bar & club wh live DJs and 18+ entrance -Riversi near Riversi Plaza The Managerie – Bar, dance floor and pat -Downtown RiversiUpland Gay & Lbian Bar Club Oasis – Upland- 18+ Wends-Sun. Pomona Gay & Lbian Bars The Hook-Up – Pomona – Je box, full bar, vio gam, pool table Alibi East – Pomona – Popular statn the Wtern Inland Empire. 340 Rtrant and Nightclub – Pomona – Popular upsle Bernardo Gay & Lbian Bars 340 East – The newly opened San Bernardo branch of the very popular 340 Pomona.

Victorville Gay & Lbian Bar Club Amnia, 3rd Wednday of the month, 14269 7th St., Victorville, CA 92395, 2 dance floors, Gogo dancers, VIP lounge, large smokg pat. Palm Sprgs Gay & Lbian Bars – The world famo hot spot for the LGBT muny! The San Fernando Valley may not be the first “gayborhood” one thks of Los Angel, but maybe should be.

It has s own unique and btlg gay nightlife, and 's steeped history, providg unique alternativ (and ls traffic) to L. 's other gayborhoods. The answer is y, and as wh WeHo, DTLA, even Long Beach, a great gay night out n be had the San Fernando Valley.

KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE ACH NFL

While none of the Valley gay bars or clubs offers food, there is a gay-iendly, gay-owned rtrant North Hollywood’s Garland Hotel lled the Front Yard.

The Garland’s owner and asset manager, Jam Crank, is an out and proud gay man whose fay has a long history wh the property. His parents built the hotel 1971 and opened as a Howard Johnson's, which featured a Howard Johnson rtrant/lounge that was a popular gay hangout back the '70s. “As I got olr, I jt had the olr gay guys e up to me and say, ‘You probably didn’t know , but the ’70s, your bar was like the gay hangout.

When Crank’s father died the late '80s, he gave up his pursu of a master's gree unselg gay youth and gay fay servic to help his mom n the hotel. … I thk a lot of that om Stt and I beg gay and beg aware of what our muny want, what wants to eat and drk and how wants to be treated, ” Crank says. “Of urse, urtg the gay muny is always a great badge of honor when our people show up bee they’re so discerng and hard to please, and I love them.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

The only gay bar L. In the gay world, some don’t have a fay [bee they were] dismissed by fay, and that’s what we ll the magic the n, ” Young says. “[From what I know], supposedly we’re the olst gay bar wt of the Mississippi.

Another historic spot, the Bullet Bar has been around as a gay fetish bar sce the 1960s unr var nam cludg the Officer’s Club, the Hangman, the Signal and the Junctn.

GAY SAN FRANCIS

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Ultimately, Lara has a visn for gay nightlife the Valley that extends beyond the Bullet Bar. Origally when I started this bs, we had 12 gay or lbian bars; we’re now down to four.

“We n e a Gay and Lbian Center satelle office on Burbank. I thk that a lot more young gay and women would stay the Valley to spend money. Dcribed by owner-operator Marty Sokol as “the most fun party town, ” this Lato gay bar is the place to go if you want to dance (or watch the talented Cobra Dancers).

GAY USA

There was a time when the gay scene was much more segregated than is now. “We’re nstantly dog fundraisg and muny events that benef not jt gay, lbian and transgenr but also for children, ” Sokol says. “We’re more of a iendly neighborhood bar that accepts everybody, gay, straight, transgenr, bisexual, ” says manager and mixologist Chris Morse, who’s been at C.

Frenz first opened as a gay bar the 1970s lled Hobo. This area was a centerpiece of gay nightlife 40 to 50 years ago, and the fact that so many plac are still functng gay bars this many years later should be celebrated and honored.

It may not be the first gayborhood that people town thk of, but after Sunday's Pri ftivi, that may change.