Goodbye To The Spotlight Bar: Remiscg About "The Last Gay Bar on Earth" - LA Weekly

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GOODBYE TO THE SPOTLIGHT BAR: REMISCG ABOUT "THE LAST GAY BAR ON EARTH"

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It's been a uple of weeks sce Hollywood's olst gay bar, the Spotlight, closed s doors for good.

There was weekend of wild goodbye parti beforehand, cludg the birthday bash for former club promoter Jefey Hilbert, who is currently workg on a documentary about the place, tentatively tled The Last Gay Bar on Earth. “I started dog rearch on the Cahuenga rridor gay bars of yteryear last summer, ” Hilbert tells . “Usg The Spotlight as a jumpg off pot, I want to show how gentrifitn and queer homogenizatn are killg off the last of the gay bars, [which are] longtime refug for outsirs.

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Drag superstar Trixie Mattel isn't ready to see her favore gay bar shut down like so many others have done durg the panmic, so she did what anyone would do: beme the bar's, who won RuPl's Drag Race All Stars 2018, says This Is It!, which opened back 1968, was the first gay bar she vised after turng 21. Now she's helpg to stay open by beg a -owner when 's harr and harr for gay bars given the panmic.

Is the olst still nng gay bar Wisns and one of the olst the US. Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016.

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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.

THE DEATH OF THE GAY BAR

It’s the perfect place for gay men to meet on the Eastsi. The word “gay” speaks to our abily to do exactly that.

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Trixie Mattel Is the New Co-Owner of Wisns's Olst Gay Bar .

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