San Fernando Valley has a secret history of gay bars

Contents:

• SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS
•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• OIL CAN HARRY’S STUD CY’S GAY COUNTRY BAR CLOS

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. “ ‘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.

 CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

Here, Adks shar his gay memori about eight spac that were loted on Venture Boulevard. 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.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angel Cultural Herage Commissn on Thursday remend that the Cy Council signate Oil Can Harry’s, which closed January, as a Historic-Cultural Monument for beg one of the olst gay bars the San Fernando Valley.

OIL CAN HARRY’S STUD CY’S GAY COUNTRY BAR CLOS

“The tablishment of Oil Can Harry’s occurred agast a backdrop of creased group ristance to homophobia wh the gay civil rights movement Los Angel, ” said Cy Planng Assistant Mickie Torr-Gil. “Dpe ially beg met wh protts by s Stud Cy neighbors, Oil Can Harry’s quickly beme a safe haven for the gay muny.