Wt Hollywood’s Historic Gay Nightclub the Abbey Is Up for Sale - Eater LA

Contents:

• LOS ANGEL GAY RTRANTS
• LA’S MOST FAMO GAY BAR HAS A 30-YEAR-OLD BAKERY HIDN INSI
• AN O TO L.A.’S GAY RTRANTS, WHERE A MUNY N FD A HOME
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• NSYNC’S LANCE BASS TO BUILD AMERI’S BIGGT GAY BAR WT HOLLYWOOD
• SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI
• GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL
• THE ABBEY, THE LEGENDARY WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR, IS FOR SALE
• THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE ONLY GAY BAR PASANA
• BT GAY BARS IN LOS ANGEL
• WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE

LOS ANGEL GAY RTRANTS

Whether you're gluten-ee, eat anic, crave meat or want somethg fatteng and lic, the var gay rtrants Los Angel will ter to your every foodie Hollywood’s bt rtrants have a morn feel and are great people-watchg spots, equent wh double tak. While the cy has many gay-specific rtrants on Santa Moni Boulevard, pretty much all rtrants are outrageoly never know who you will see Wt Hollywood!

Wh the mpy vibe straight out of a John Waters so close to the ocean, one of the top gay rtrants Los Angel for seafood is Connie & Ted's. Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016. 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 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.

LA’S MOST FAMO GAY BAR HAS A 30-YEAR-OLD BAKERY HIDN INSI

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. 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. It’s the perfect place for gay men to meet on the Eastsi. The revolters, who clud transgenr people, gay men and “htlers” — acrdg to John Rechy, one of the men the police attempted to arrt, who tailed the event his 1963 novel “Cy of Night” — ntued their stand, the motn blockg off that strip of the street through the night and to the next revolt is wily regard as the first rerd event where people the LGBTQ muny took a stand agast police btaly.

It laid the foundatn for later uprisgs at the Black Cat Tavern Silver Lake (then Endale), Compton’s Cafeteria San Francis’s Tenrlo neighborhood, and then, most notorly, at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy, all of which occurred wh the ensug sence the gay rights movement, one uld argue, started not a bar, wh beer bottl crashg unr the glow of neon, but a ty rtrant servg doughnuts 60 years ago this month. (Silvia Raza / For The Tim) Gay people have always gathered bars or secret clubs, sacrosanct for their abily to protect om outsi evils.

AN O TO L.A.’S GAY RTRANTS, WHERE A MUNY N FD A HOME

Every gay person who mov to a new cy first seeks out the bars, to better unrstand the new environment. His workers troduced him to gay clubs such as RoosterFish, Rippl and Boom Boom Room, but the feelg of home “really cemented when I went to the gay rtrants.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

Rtrants, found across the untry, are what we the muny ll “gay rtrants”: spots that are eher owned by, or ter to, a largely gay — most often cis male — clientele (although no one would get turned away). ” (Silvia Raza / For The Tim) Some “gay rtrants” have terrs cked out rabow flags, amed pics of Bea Arthur as her “Goln Girls” character Dorothy Zbornak and posters of exuberant drag queens advertisg the next themed bnch.

Some look like your n-of-the-l sual-dg rtrant, but the owners employ mostly gay wastaff who know how to liver the right amount of sass and a se to get you to orr that cnamon bun that everyone at the table says they won’t eat but then vours wh 20 sends. Some jt happen to be loted gay neighborhoods and, if they’re welg, stand the tt of time as hallowed totems of the food, ankly, is never that good. Gays have been gog there for s.

If that don’t mer a gay affiliatn, I don’t know what do. After all, this is ground base for the entertament dtry, and ’s relatively mon to spot a "Drag Race" queen (out of drag, of urse) or Hollywood name (maybe openly gay, maybe more discreetly so) while imbibg a drk at a Wt Hollywood gay bar, soakg sun at a gay-iendly beach, takg a gay stand-up edy show, or wanrg around laid-back hipster hood, Silver Lake, or Beverly Hills. (and y, spottg celebri like gay Olympic diver Tom Daley and his Osr-wng hband, Dt Lance Black).

WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE

Jt north of the Santa Moni Beach borr Pacific Palisas, the approximately 3-e-long Will Rogers State Beach, fact once owned by the Hollywood legend but donated to California state after his ath, has a fabulo gay sectn dubbed “Gger Rogers Beach” wh volleyball urts and plenty of nearby f, rtrants, and cktail spots.

Along wh Santa Moni Boulevard’s Revolver, Mother Lo, and Rage, Micky’s is a cherished, endurg Wt Hollywood gay nightlife stutn. Birthed om a “homophile” magaze of the same name (first published 1953), ONE hosts temporary exhibns at both this Gallery — for example, Stephen Varble’s 1970s genrqueer “gutter art” — and the USC Librari, where ONE’s ma llectn is based.

Billg self as a “rock n roll gay bar, ” and que a large one at that, expect go-go boys, unrwear parti, bear and Lato-centric nights, and drag shows wh "Drag Race" fav. There’s some irony to the name, sce this licly divey, neighborhood gay bar is actually DTLA’s olst. A Denmark-born, openly gay skre gu, Henriksen achieved first fame treatg Hollywood rints’ cystic ae wh miraculo rults and garnered an A-list client list that’s clud Ellen DeGener, Cher, Charlize Theron, and Elton John.

NSYNC’S LANCE BASS TO BUILD AMERI’S BIGGT GAY BAR WT HOLLYWOOD

Only a block by foot yet a world away om Wt Hollywood’s Santa Moni Boulevard gay nightclubs and bars, boutique hotel Pet Ermage f Morocn, Spanish, and Parisian vib wh bohemian chic and a touch of rnival whimsy. If you really want to soak Hollywood old-school glamour and history, the gay-owned Sunset Tower Hotel on Sunset Boulevard is a mt, while more ntemporary-md visors n nsir Palihoe Wt Hollywood. Try changg or rettg your filtersShowg PlacePlac The Boulevard Pasana LGBTQ+ $ The Boulevard pris self on beg Pasana’s only gay bar.

It’s a gay bar, ’s a straight bar, ’s a trans bar, ’s a drag bar, ’s a karaoke bar, ’s a bar you n go to no matter who you are and feel fortable. The gay-owned, gay-managed bistro nverted s loadg area to an attractive pat space and stalled 10, 000 Christmas lights that hang above ctomers as they de. “As a fay-owned, gay-owned bs, we always want to keep that neighborhood inty, ” Shaw said.

The bar origally opened as a gay bar 1979 but is now open to everyone. The Abbey, arguably the untry’s biggt and most famo gay bar Wt Hollywood, is officially on the market. Among them is Rage, the inic 37-year-old Wt Hollywood gay nightclub staple, which closed September followg a landlord dispute.

SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI

We abhor homophobia. We do not unrstand gay Republins. 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. Long Beach Gay also has a gay culture on that part of the ast. Other gay L.

GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL

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.

THE ABBEY, THE LEGENDARY WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR, IS FOR SALE

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. '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 FIGHT TO SAVE THE ONLY GAY BAR PASANA

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. Owg largely to s scenic shorele, Long Beach has one of the Wt's most popular Pri events—Long Beach Gay Pri is held late May. This isn't a real hotbed of gay culture, but plenty of GLBT visors e over to explore this betiful ltle island.

BT GAY BARS IN LOS ANGEL

There's a visor ksk at Pleasure Pier, Avalon, and Catala do have a number of overnight acmodatns, cludg the very gay-iendly Avalon Hotel. If you're lookg for a be to eat after relaxg at the gay beach at Will Rogers State Beach, try Gladston Malibu for outstandg seafood a handsome oceanont buildg, or historic Patrick's Roadhoe for burgers, omelets, and no-nonsense der fare.

Other upsle properti of note clu the discreetly upsle Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows, where 's hard to choose between an ocean view om the 10-story tower or one of the serene and romantic garn bungalows; the boldly rate Viceroy Santa Moni (sister to the hip and siarly gay-popular Viceroy Palm Sprgs); and the dramatic blue tower, the timate (84 rooms) Geian Hotel, one Santa Moni's allurg beti, datg to 1933.

WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE

A quirky, morately priced, and very tertg historic hotel that has somethg of a gay followg, the Palihoe Santa Moni Hotel (formerly known as the Embassy Hotel Apartments)—rved out of a 1920s Moorish Revival apartment buildg—has enormo rooms wh full kchens and distctive furnishgs.

Other gay-welg, ls-expensive optns clu the betifully renovated Wyndham Santa Moni at the Pier, steps om the pier, and the enomil but well-mataed Travelodge Santa Moni Pi Boulevard.

Santa Moni and Venice Gay Nightlife Gui.