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SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI
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« Back to Los AngelMany gay travellers who want to stay near the beach Los Angel opt for Santa Moni. Gay Wt Hollywood is twenty mut by r up the picturque Santa Moni Boulevard, while Venice beach and s mcle Marys are twenty mut’ walk down the Moni is where many gay Angelenos eat and party. This is California, after the top of Santa Moni there is a gay-popular sectn the segment lled Will Rogers State Beach (or gay parlance Gger Rogers Beach) oppose Patrick’s Roadhoe rtrant.
There aren't many rourc for gay travelers foced specifilly on Santa Moni, Venice, and ast; however, this is part of metro Los Angel, which has is one of the world's centers of GLBT culture. There are numero gay newspapers and publitns servg the general area, and Wt Hollywood is the hub of the regn's gay scene.
GAY PANIC ON MCLE BEACH
Long Beach Gay also has a gay culture on that part of the ast. Other gay L.
Gay & Lbian Center and the popular gay newspapers Frontiers and Lbian News. Today, you'd never know that this primarily straight, whe, and profsnal area was an early bastn of gay society, a land of bathho, cisg, and nu sunbathg.
Jt off the beach a huge gay bar, the Tropil Village, drew everybody om navy men to closeted celebri to rint thors Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spenr. Gay rints are still most fely a prence Santa Moni, but wh nowhere near the prence they have Wt Hollywood, Silver Lake, and some other parts of Los Angel. And wh the flux recent years of stellar rtrants and sign-driven hotels, Santa Moni has steadily bee a favore gay getaway for upl, beachgoers, and those wantg a more relaxed Los Angel vatn.
GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS SANTA MONI
's East Village or Haight-Ashbury by the sea—ed, was a haven of unter-culture and members of the Beat Generatn durg the '50s and '60s, as well as avant-gar artists and graffi experts, like the late gay artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, the '80s. Along the ast near the Santa Moni–Pacific Palisas town le, you'll fd the most famo gay beach greater Los Angel, loted at the nearly 2-e-long Will Rogers State Beach (15900 Pacific Coast Hwy., at Teml Canyon Road). A ftive atmosphere prevails on most sunny days, pecially around the gay sectn, known affectnately as "Gger Rogers Beach.
Below here, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, and Redondo Beach are three middle-class suburbs—there is one gay bar the area, the Dolph, Redondo Beach. Long Beach has a lively gay nightlife scene. The cy has one of the largt gay muni California, somethg that probably has a great al to do wh the town's strong navy history durg World War II.