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Contents:

• AFTER 71 YEARS, OLST GAY BAR CLOSG WTPORT
• THE OLST GAY BAR QUEENS SECUR ITS FUTURE JACKSON HEIGHTS
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• HONOLULU, WAIKIKI, AND OAHU GAY GUI AND PHOTO GALLERY
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

AFTER 71 YEARS, OLST GAY BAR CLOSG WTPORT

41) Bar Gaytherg (Miami Beach, FL)42) Cafe Lafte In Exile (New Orleans, LA)43) Cubbyhole (New York, NY)44) Srlet Honolulu (Honolulu, HI)45) The Goln Lantern (New Orleans, LA)46) Freddie’s Beach Bar & Rtrant (Arlgton, VA)47) Replay Beer and Bourbon (Chigo, IL)48) Berl (Chigo, IL)49) Marty’s Marti Bar (Chigo, IL)50) The North End (Chigo, IL). We intified bs the gay bars tegory, then ranked those spots g a number of factors cludg the total volume and ratgs of reviews between January 1, 2016 and April 28, 2021. Micky’s WeHo has long been a staple on Wt Hollywood’s strip of gay nightclubs and bars on Santa Moni Boulevard, known for s open-walled two-story buildg where passersby n see the party ragg om the street.

THE OLST GAY BAR QUEENS SECUR ITS FUTURE JACKSON HEIGHTS

The venue is the only Latx gay bar LA that explicly ters to a gay and Mexin dience every night, not jt as a theme once a week.

But ’s the perfect space to grab a workday bnch wh a lleague or for -workg ssns -hosted on Tudays wh Gay Asstrology. The origal Downtown gay bar, Jalis is a dive bar that ters to the Latx and Mexin LGBTQ muny. Though Sweetwater isn’t officially known as a lbian bar, the humble tablishment has long been the go-to spot for queer women the lol gayborhood, which featur nearly half a dozen gay bars that le Broadway Long Beach.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

One of Long Beach’s few, if not only, three-level gay bars, Executive Sue boasts a karaoke bar, vio gam, pool tabl for rent, and regular drag shows.

Dubbed by KCET as Montebello’s bt Lato gay bar, Chi is the sister to Club Cobra, servg as a groundg se for the queer Latx muny the suburbs of East LA. The Cedar Brook Cafe, the natn's olst ntuoly-nng gay bar, is closg on June 26 after 71 years. WESTPORT -- The Cedar Brook Cafe's stat as the olst gay bar the Uned Stat will e to an end on June 26 when the 71-year-old stutn clos.

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

Acrdg to Dan Woog, thor of "School's Out: The Impact of Gay and Lbian Issu on Ameri's Schools, " the Cedar Brook has played an important role wh the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr muny for many years.

HONOLULU, WAIKIKI, AND OAHU GAY GUI AND PHOTO GALLERY

"In the early days, when bars were the only place gay people uld ngregate, was a refuge, " he said. "In the 1970s, when gay people me out more publicly, was the center of Fairfield County gay life. In the 1980s, when more women started gog, helped brg the gay and lbian muni closer together.

Always, was a re of passage for young people -- for many, their first troductn to the gay muny.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

"So 's a loss for anyone, gay or straight, and one more ditn of the dwdlg night life this area. "For a long time, the Brook had a mystique for gay teenagers growg up Wtport, " he said. Recently, the club has bee a social gatherg place not jt for the gay muny, but also for racial mori, acrdg to Bellairs.

Erik Anrson, 24, of Norwalk, said that the Cedar Brook was "not your typil gay bar. Woog said that the Cedar Brook "reprented a ltle b of gay history, right here Wtport.

"I found trigug that for many years was loted directly across om the state police barracks (now Walgreens), and that flourished suburbia, wh no adversy beyond a few homophobic remarks yelled by passg teenagers, " he said.