The Founr of One of L.A.'s Earlit Gay Diss Isn't Cryg Over s Dtctn - LA Weekly

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].

MAPA GAY CHILE

There's a movement to prerve Circ Dis, the Hollywood club that was an early sanctuary for gay people of lor Los Angel. 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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. 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. 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.

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

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.

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. 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.

EARLY GAY CLUBS LA

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.

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.

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

” (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. 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.

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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.

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¿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.

Celebri would make p stops when they were town — om Madonna and Sharon Stone to “Queen of Dis” the sun rose, they left drenched phoria and the joy experienced at Jewel’s Catch One club was more than a weekend choice for fun; was an act of fiance by black lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people the face of clubs Wt Hollywood where they felt unwanted bee of their Thais-Williams is a pete 76-year-old wh a short gray ao. When allowed , she would often be double-rd, havg to show two forms of was no space where black gays uld enjoy themselv one another’s pany, pg what they saw as the racial discrimatn of Wt Hollywood and the homophobia of the Ain Amerin 1973 she opened Catch One, one of the first black diss the years later, the Catch is known as the last black-owned gay club Los Angel.

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

”::Built for secrecy, wh blacked-out wdows and dark doors, the first gay clubs served as havens om the homophobia of broar society. For black gays, their clubs were often the only gatherg place they the HIV epimic broke out, whe gays band together, g their clubs as spac for fundraisg and polil galvanizatn. But early on, black gays did not see HIV as an issue affectg them, bee the media and Centers for Disease Control and Preventn portrayed the vis as a whe gay the time blacks realized did affect them, the damage had been done and club-gog practic had shifted.

Detro hasn’t had one sce the closure of the Contental the late Los Angel, black gays are now attracted to the newns and central lotn of Wt Hollywood, where club-hoppg is possible. That and the advent of the Inter and cellphone datg apps ntributed to the Catch’s Wilson, senr scholar of public policy at UCLA School of Law’s Williams Instute, lled the disappearance of black gay spac ncerng.

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

“Havg muny space at the tersectn of both genr, sexualy and race has been really important as a rource for navigatg racism, homophobia and heterosexism, ” she ’a Thomas, an adjunct profsor at USC’s School of Social Work, said the clubs are more than jt party spac, they’re stutns of affirmatn. ”::In Wt Hollywood, black party promoters are takg up Thais-Williams’ fight om the early ‘70s: creatg spac for black gays and the middle of a dark room illumated only by strobe lights, hips roll and shoulrs je to the latt rap and hip-hop ’s Sunday night at the Rage nightclub Wt Hollywood. ” He beme a party promoter three years ago after noticg there was no space where he as a black gay man felt valued, he Southern California’s gay haven, Anthony said felt like his money, the money of black people, wasn’t wanted — hip-hop mic was rtricted to only Top 40 hs, black go-go dancers weren’t hired, and secury seemed to rev up only for cints volvg blacks as opposed to those wh wh.

“Diversy is what mak our bs so strong, ” Cooley ’s one thg to have a black gay night and another to have a black gay space, Anthony a club the gay bastn would help the black LGBT muny fight racial prejudice they still face Wt Hollywood, said Jamari Amour, 30, a profsnal dancer. “People look down on you like, ‘When we’re done here, we’re gog to walk to our ndos down the street and you’re gog to drive back to the ghetto, ” Amour beg able to party Wt Hollywood allows many black gays the opportuny to temporarily shift class, if jt for one night. Opened by Gene La Pietra and Er “Ed” Lemos as a primarily Lato alternative to the then-exclnary nightclubs of Wt Hollywood, Circ quickly veloped a reputatn (along wh Jewel's Catch One and, later, s next-door neighbor Arena) as one of the cy's few gay clubs wh no drs and no racist door policy.