THE 5 BEST Mosw Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023) - Tripadvisor

Contents:

• LA’S MOST FAMO GAY BAR HAS A 30-YEAR-OLD BAKERY HIDN INSI
• LI'L DEVILS: BAKER'S NEIGHBORHOOD HANGOUT THAT HAPPENS TO BE A GAY BAR
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• A HISTORY OF L.A.’S GAY BAR SCENE, TOLD MATCHBOOKS

LA’S MOST FAMO GAY BAR HAS A 30-YEAR-OLD BAKERY HIDN INSI

This bar is gay-owned and staffed.

LI'L DEVILS: BAKER'S NEIGHBORHOOD HANGOUT THAT HAPPENS TO BE A GAY BAR

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Fleh has worked the bar dtry around town for more than 25 years, and was actually employed for six years at the Barker Lounge, a now-funct gay dive bar that was the prev occupant of the space at 255 South Broadway. In Li'l Devils, Fleh has created a neighborhood bar that also happens to be a gay bar. Sarah McGill As my iend and I ught up over our stes of green Bud Light, we noticed that the TVs were spl between llege basketball gam and a channel playg a mix of mic vios om Chaka Khan, Whney Hoton and Lady Gaga— which, aga, seems to reflect the tent to be both a neighborhood bar and a gay bar.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

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Gay bars and sex clubs, most of them now closed. -based queer artist who was a regular at a number of the spots worked briefly as a barback at Cuffs, a major gay hangout of the recent “was credibly dark and super cisey, ” Jony rells.

A HISTORY OF L.A.’S GAY BAR SCENE, TOLD MATCHBOOKS

“As Silver Lake — and the whole landspe of gay Hollywood and the east si — changed so much I always had this ia my head of turng the place back to Cuffs for one night, ” he says. The early ’90s, there were more than a dozen [gay bars] on the east si. ”The closg of many east-si gay bars n be blamed, part, on gentrifitn’s effect on rents.

It also n be argued that the ongog expansn of jt what queerns n mean uld have ma a segment of gay bars, which thrived a sort of self-intified exclivy, obsolete. “I’m not one of them, ” Jony says, “but a lot of gay men my age and a generatn olr like to talk about the days of male-only spac and what that meant to them. ” Jony is pleased that anyone who intifi as male — trans men, for example — are now more wele at gay bars than they were the past.