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Contents:

• CLUBS Y BAR GAY EN CHILECLUBS Y BAR GAY EN CHILE
• MAPA GAY CHILE
• CLUBS Y BAR GAY EN LOS ÁNGELCLUBS Y BAR GAY EN LOS ÁNGEL
• A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S
• THE FOUNR OF ONE OF L.A.'S EARLIT GAY DISS ISN'T CRYG OVER S DTCTN
• EARLY GAY CLUBS LA
• LA DIS FSTO Y LAS NOCH GAY EN DICTADURA LLEGAN AL TEATRO
• GREAT READ: JEWEL’S CATCH ONE DIS’S MISE MARKS ERA’S END FOR L.A.’S GAY BLACKS
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• ‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN
• "EL RMO LA NOCHE": VUELVE OBRA QUE SE ANTRA EN LAS NOCH GAY EN DICTADURA CHILENA

CLUBS Y BAR GAY EN CHILECLUBS Y BAR GAY EN CHILE

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Wt Hollywood has long been the rabow-draped pal of the gay muny Los Angel, but an article for KCET, cy planner Jam Rojas scrib the diverse and somewhat unr-the-radar gay dis circu of 1970s Hollywood.

" In Lillian Farman and Stuart Timmons’s Gay LA, the thors scribe how rtrant staff ed to splash the bathroom floors wh ammonia—the smell enuragg patrons not to lger longer than necsary. [KCET] Developers Will Save Parts of Historic Circ Dis But Raze Everythg Else [Curbed LA] Mappg Los Angel's Groundbreakg Role LGBT History [Curbed LA] The Past and Future of Three of LA's Historic But Threatened Gay Nightclubs [Curbed LA]. There's a movement to prerve Circ Dis, the Hollywood club that was an early sanctuary for gay people of lor Los Angel.

MAPA GAY CHILE

But the man who found the venue 1974 as a safe haven for gay Latos and Ain-Amerins who uldn't get to other clubs dit that 's time to let go.

He bought the warehoe 1974 wh then-partner Er “Ed” Lemos bee they were tired of beg turned away om whe, gay tablishments, La Pietra told prev terviews.

CLUBS Y BAR GAY EN LOS ÁNGELCLUBS Y BAR GAY EN LOS ÁNGEL

When the warehoe's owner found out La Pietra tend to turn the place to a gay club, he tried to pull out of the sale, but was too late, he said. In 1983, civil rights and labor lear César Chávez addrsed roughly 100 members of the Project Jt Bs gay and lbian aln at the bar, where he offered strategi for anizg boytts and aln fundraisg.

This was pecially important for black and lato gay people, back the 1970s and 1980s, who didn’t feel as wele at the time Wt Hollywood. Hoe mic started Chigo the late 1970s, offerg gay, black, hispanic men, women, and other mori a place where they uld feel ee and safe and hang loose on the dance floors. I wouldn’t have even known there was a gay night there if not for my Cafe LA terpreter for lat terviewe and LA-based archect/thor/producer and man around town, Humberto Capiro.

They gaed such a dited followg among gay women who liked lat mic that they eventually helped to start a LGBT salsa night twice a month at an old, tablished night club lled Rudolpho’s Silverlake, at the rner of Fletcher and Riversi Drive.

A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S

Later, they started “Salsa Con Clasé” on every first and third Saturday of the month, which ran om 1994–1999 and tered to both gay men and women.

THE FOUNR OF ONE OF L.A.'S EARLIT GAY DISS ISN'T CRYG OVER S DTCTN

Rudolpho’s was eventually shut down by the fire partment for overcrowdg, but like Catch One, was once a place where everyone was wele, whether gay, straight, bisexual, or transgenr—the only thg that mattered was that you had a good time. Today we’ve piled a list featurg some of the hottt and upg LGBT clubs Los first LGBT clubs is mored to have started around the 1920s on the East Coast, however the Whe Horse Inn Oakland, California claims to be the olst gay bar operatn.

EARLY GAY CLUBS LA

Luckily for those lookg for LGBT bars, there are many gay bars to equent, as the challenge now is fdg the right one, stead of searchg for one. The AbbeyThe tertnaly popular gay bar/gay club Abbey giv patrons a llectn of loung, outdoor terrac and exclive banas givg unlimed event optns, om private cktail parti to large-sle celebratn dners.

Known as a Wt Hollywood stutn, home of the Gay Walk of Fame, Elizabeth Taylor’s favore pub, and a muny center, The Abbey is one of the premier gay / lbian nightlife experienc Wt Los AngelThe BirdgeThe Birdge is one of the hottt VIP bars Santa Moni. They is the iendly, provi a great place to share cktails, and a short walk om several other gay bars the area.

LA DIS FSTO Y LAS NOCH GAY EN DICTADURA LLEGAN AL TEATRO

Today, their spir ntu to grow and set a mol of excellence the lbian and gay Tops BarHi Tops is the newt bar to open up Weho’s Boystown that stands apart om many of the borg new spots around. Yep, the olst gay bar Wt Hollywood is gettg a facelift to stay petive wh all the excellent new addns that are buddg all over Boystown.

The bar’s owner Robert Yaubian, who prefers to be lled Bob, says the bar is here to stay, that the new addns are imprive, and that the bar will rema a staple of Wt Hollywood’s gay history.

), Wt Hollywood, CAGay Bar · 105 tips and reviewsSamantha Cortez: Dis ball, drk menu, and "dancg queen" on repeat! In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year.

GREAT READ: JEWEL’S CATCH ONE DIS’S MISE MARKS ERA’S END FOR L.A.’S GAY BLACKS

Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. TopletetopleteFiltersDateCategoryFormatPriceLanguageCurrencyMost popular matchCompassnate Care Groups GathergThu, Aug 17 • 8:30 AM Oklahoma Baptist Hom for ChildrenCompassnate Care Groups GathergThu, Aug 17 • 8:30 AM Oklahoma Baptist Hom for ChildrenAquatic Atlanta Adventure Game For Groups and CouplToday • 12:00 PM + 157 moreGeia AquariumAquatic Atlanta Adventure Game For Groups and CouplToday • 12:00 PM + 157 moreGeia AquariumGay Men's Walkg GroupSunday • 1:30 PM + 18 moreMorrell Nature SanctuaryGay Men's Walkg GroupSunday • 1:30 PM + 18 moreMorrell Nature SanctuaryPromotedPEACHES AND EGGPLANTS POOL PARTYSat, Aug 5 • 2:00 PM TarzanaPromotedPEACHES AND EGGPLANTS POOL PARTYSat, Aug 5 • 2:00 PM TarzanaPromotedXBalance™ Run For Fun!

‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN

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"EL RMO LA NOCHE": VUELVE OBRA QUE SE ANTRA EN LAS NOCH GAY EN DICTADURA CHILENA

A partir la icóni distheque y basándose en relatos bgráfis personas que participaron la cena homosexual chilena entre f los 70’ y prcips los 90’, el Colectivo Art Escénis La Comuna (Petra, pacs doméstis domación) trena una daz puta en cena que vela la particular naturaleza a bohemia. En 2019 la icóni distheque gay Fsto cumple 40 años, nvirtiéndose así en la más antigua Chile que aún logra mantenerse en funcnamiento.

¿Cómo fue que un antro homosexual abre en los años más duros la dictadura cívi-ar chilena, permanece durante todo e período, siguiendo operativa clo hasta hoy?

Luego se tableció una metodología don se distguieron los temas, lugar y personaj recurrent y efectuaron un segundo barrido encuentros entre los que stan los ttimons un transformista la épo, un rabero homosexual, el amante un agente la CNI. “Por med ttimons personas que vivieron ta etapa entre 1979 y 1994, que fue cuando se hizo la última redada a una dis gay sólo por serlo, la distheque Quásar; empezamos a nocer cómo era la noche homosexual en dictadura: los disttos lugar, cómo se movilizaba, las diferent dámis, trategias protección, ristencia… A partir Fsto, que era el lugar más protegido durante la dictadura, porque iban senador, diplomátis, figuras la televisión, entonc la policía no taba hostigando nstantemente, amás se pagaba imas a los ar para que no moltaran”, señala su director, Diego Agurto. "Former Hollywood hnt the Probe began as a private club for gay men and, like a lot of other LGBT venu, beme a home for all sorts of alternative-md young people.