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Contents:

• THE CENTRAL COAST HAS A THRIVG LGBTQ MUNY, SO WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY BARS? 
• SAN LUIS OBISPO GAY NIGHTLIFE GUI
• NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS
• TRAVELLG GAY SOCIAL NIGHT RETURNS
• ATRALIA HAS LONG HAD A GAY BEACH SUBCULTURE BUT THEY HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN SAFE SPAC
• TOP TEN GAYT SONGS EVER
• GAY BEAST

THE CENTRAL COAST HAS A THRIVG LGBTQ MUNY, SO WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY BARS? 

For s, gay bars have been a safe haven and munal place for the LGBTQ+ muny to e together. But even as much of society mov toward more acceptance and clivy, queer-specific spac n still be hard to fd, and the Central Coast is no four lotns San Luis Obispo pop up on Yelp when nductg a simple search for "gay bays and clubs, " the realy is there are no centralized late-night tablishments that ter strictly to the growg LGBTQ+ Klem, founr of the Central Coast LGBTQ+ webse Queer SLO, said there are only two ma queer-dited groups the cy.

And beyond that, there’s not a lot happeng the cy of San Luis Obispo, ” Klem lack of gay bars SLO has phed many to look outsi of the area for an clive nightlife or take matters to their own Pike, -founr of Skipper’s Brew, said she’d like to expand the shop to a more queer-dited space. We're the mastream of muny and we don't need we don't need to go to a gay bar to actually meet people, but we still want It. ”Outsi of SLO County, theonce lively gay club scene Santa Barbara once boasted up six gay bars, acrdg to lols who have lived there sce the 1970s.

As a teen, Rory Uribe fantasized about gog to a gay bar or club and fally beg able to be unabashedly gay public.

SAN LUIS OBISPO GAY NIGHTLIFE GUI

Click to enlarge Photo Courty Of Matthew Lalanne GAY CLUB ALCHEMISTS Daniel Gomez (left) and Frank Domguez (right) are known for turng typil bars to hugely succsful, LGBTQ-clive parti.

NSW POLICE: HUNTG GAY MEN AT BEATS

So Uribe always thought the gay bars Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo unti would provi that much-need and missg support system and work. "I've dreamed of gog to a gay bar sce I was like, 16, " Uribe told New Tim. The lack of LGBTQ-specific nightlife on the Central Coast is an issue much of the lol gay and trans muny is forced to work around.

Santa Barbara's once thrivg gay club scene dwdled, and eventually pletely disappeared, as varyg sexual orientatns and genr inti beme more wily accepted and datg apps beme more readily available.

But 's left the Central Coast whout a gay bar reach—the neart (acrdg to mor and Google) are Ventura, Frno, and San Jose—and many lols say the safety gay bars and clubs provi is still very much need, pecially the more nservative portns of the state.

TRAVELLG GAY SOCIAL NIGHT RETURNS

Uribe, who is now a stunt at Allan Hanck College, fally ma their gay bar dream e te this sprg while visg a iend San Francis.

ATRALIA HAS LONG HAD A GAY BEACH SUBCULTURE BUT THEY HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN SAFE SPAC

Like so many other LGBTQ rints the area and across the natn, Uribe helped start an anizatn dited to givg gay, trans, and queer dividuals a safe space to meet up and build support systems.

Uribe and other Hanck stunts revalized the school's long idle Queers and Alli Club last year, and the group regularly hosts meetgs, ffee meetups, and parti, which Uribe dubbed "gay bash. He wanted to spice thgs up by startg a group that would make easier for lol LGBTQ dividuals to meet, and was mullg over the ia one day when he walked to the now closed Metro Brewg Company San Luis Obispo and jt happened to spot two gay upl si.

"And I was like, 'Oh my god, is this a gay bar?

TOP TEN GAYT SONGS EVER

One bar owner told SLOQueerdos that he didn't want his tablishment to be known as a gay bar, Domguez said.

GAY BEAST

Still, Domguez and his partner— bs and life—Daniel Gomez, who also -owns SLOQueerdos, agree that openg a gay bar on the Central Coast would be challengg. Rent is stly, liquor licens are hard to e by, and they qutned whether a gay bar SLO would have enough nsistent bs to stay open.

While gay bars do provi LGBTQ muni wh sential social opportuni, Gomez said 's easier than ever to lk up through readily accsible onle datg apps like Tr and Grdr. I thk [onle datg] has a huge impact on the gay club scene. "We jt make clubs to gay clubs.