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• THE CENTRAL COAST HAS A THRIVG LGBTQ MUNY, SO WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY BARS? 
• FD & PARE GAY WELG HOTELS CENTRAL COAST CALIFORNIA, CA
• SAN LUIS OBISPO GAY NIGHTLIFE GUI
• SEARCH FOR CHEAP DEALS ONGAY FRIENDLY HOTELS CENTRAL COAST CALIFORNIA
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• GAY FLORIDA
• IS THERE ANY GAY NIGHTLIFE ALONG THE CENTRAL AST? - SAN LUIS OBISPO FOM
• GAYT PLAC IN FLORIDA FOR 2020

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

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

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. 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.

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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. 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.

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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.

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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.

Chufar and Johns are married, and they're both board members at Santa Barbara's Gay and Lbian Bs Associatn, a nonprof that funds scholarships awards each year to llege-bound and votnal stunts across the unty.

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As gayns gradually beme more wily accepted, so did gay bs, and that arm of the nonprof eventually halted s work.

Johns has lived Santa Barbara sce the '70s, and said there were about six gay bars Santa Barbara alone at one time.

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Younger generatns are g datg apps to fd other gays town now rather than gay bars, and Chufar and Johns said that's OK.

But that's not necsarily te other, more nservative swaths of the Central Coast, acrdg to reprentativ of the Hoe of Pri and Equaly (HOPE), a Santa Maria-based anizatn dited to creatg safe spac for the lol gay and trans muny. Cee Chavez works wh HOPE, and said that while she might ocsnaly see openly gay upl North County, 's not as predomate or accepted as South County. That wouldn't be a problem if there was a gay bar somewhere the area, acrdg to Anthony Lover, another HOPE official.

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If you're lookg for particularly gay-welg plac that are popular for dancg, or that have notable settgs or food and drk, you'll fd a handful of excellent optns right the heart of downtown SLO. Also earng lots of kudos among ale aficnados are Central Coast Brewg (which has been a sponsor of SLO Gay Pri over the years) and Liberte Brewg downtown San Luis Obispo, and BarrelHoe Brewg and Beer Garn, also Paso Robl.

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HotelsCarsFlightsVatnsGet the appMy AcuntSearch for Cheap Deals onGay Friendly Hotels Central Coast CaliforniaHotelsCarsFlightsPackagWhere to? Daniel Howard, who go by the drag queen name "Daniel Kty", grew up a place once lled "Atralia's most homophobic town" pots:Ulverstone was the scene of anti-gay ralli the 1990s and the uncil passed a motn opposg crimalisatnDaniel Howard grew up there and says abe was hurled at them daily at the b stopThe uncil has bee the send Tasmania to raise the rabow pri flag The 24-year-old is om the small astal township of Ulverstone, on Tasmania's north-wt ast, boastg a populatn of almost 15, 000 lol uncil was once the flashpot for the bate on crimalisg homosexualy Tasmania, the last state to make the law change, which eventually passed 1994.

(Supplied: Daniel Howard)"I ped my fair share of homophobia om [a] majory of the people bee I feel like, at the time, that was a real general mdset.

"Scene of anti-gay ralli as uncil opposed crimalisatnThe Central Coast Council — formerly the Ulverstone Municipal Council — ma self known durg the crimalisatn bate the 1980s and December 1990, the uncil rried a motn opposg crimalisatn and urged other uncils the state's north-wt to ph agast reforms, as Ulverstone beme the scene of angry anti-gay ralli.

Equaly Tasmania print Rodney Croome was prottg outsi the anti-gay ralli at the time and said he "uld not have imaged that, only two s, Ulverstone would have the rabow flag flyg above s uncil chambers".

" Equaly Tasmania print Rodney Croome fought agast the anti-gay ralli the 1980 and 90s and now gets to watch the pri flag fly. "Especially after the Central Coast Council beg the municipaly for one of the biggt anti-gay ralli that the untry had ever seen.

(Supplied: Roger Lovell)In September 2018, Cr Diprose brought forward a motn to the Central Coast Council to help make the regn more clive, by regnisg past homophobia and unrtakg to exprs support through events and Croome said he would like to see other uncils raisg the rabow flag to show their support for equaly and cln for LGBTIQ+ people.

"What's signifint about the flag-raisg Ulverstone is not only that 's occurrg what was once lled Atralia's most homophobic town, but that this is only the send time Tasmania that the rabow flag had been raised over a town hall, " he said, "the first beg Hobart durg the marriage equaly bate and, subsequently, every year durg the pri ftival.