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LOVG AND PARTYG AT CHI: 'THE BT LATO GAY BAR' MONTEBELLO

D’s Cocktail Lounge, a most bar largely off the gay-dar, loted a Montebello mi-mall.

LOVG AND PARTYG AT CHI: 'THE BT LATO GAY BAR' MONTEBELLO

The bar drew a lol Mexin-Amerin clientele, a smatterg of self-intifyg gay men and women, trans women and drag queens, and heterosexuals havg a flg wh someone not their signifint other.

Sokol, a TV producer, was enmhed the gay/art/mp/rock band scene of Echo Park and Silver Lake, as was I.

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Owned by the proprietor of the gay vaquero dance club, Tempo, the Sre had a long, queer past. It was once a gay bar lled The Keyhole, the ont door surround by a large, woon keyhole shape (that remaed when was the Sre and beyond) day, Sokol lled and told me that he and Licón had bought the bar but didn’t know what to ll . I thought about Montebello, about queerns and reprentatn, and how sire uld be ptured while avoidg the clichés of so much homoerotic imagery.

I wanted imag for Chi that were aimed at a predomantly gay Lato male dience, athetilly rmed by neighborhoods like Montebello, largely workg and middle class.

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