San Fernando Valley has a secret history of gay bars

Contents:

• THE END OF THE OTHER SI: INIC GAY PIANO BAR'S FAL WEEKEND IS 'LIKE A MAD IRISH WAKE'
• ‘DON’T TELL MAMA’ CLOS, LEAVG WEHO (AND LA) WHOUT A GAY PIANO BAR
• LEGENDARY LONG BEACH GAY PIANO BAR PARADISE TO CLOSE APRIL
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• L.A.: GAY PIANO BAR CLOS TO MAKE ROOM FOR SPORTS BAR
• SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS
• GAY LOS ANGEL
• LOS ANGEL GAY BARS
• AFTER 58 YEARS, ’S LAST LL FOR THE CALIPH, ONE OF SAN DIEGO’S LONGT-NNG GAY BARS
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE

THE END OF THE OTHER SI: INIC GAY PIANO BAR'S FAL WEEKEND IS 'LIKE A MAD IRISH WAKE'

There were a uple of sgle mothers raisg teenagers, olr gay upl, a Perry Farrell-like du named Adam who created and tend to the neighborhood’s famo chanlier tree. When the bar opened 1968, was one of many gay bars the neighborhood, and one of que a few piano bars the cy. ” He remembers a time when Silver Lake was home to dozens of gay bars.

Much of the film is dited to memori of LA’s gay nightlife history, when so-lled gentleman’s bars were monplace.

Both Cantillon and a number of men terviewed the film blame the ath of the piano bar—and the vast gap between piano bars and morn gay bars—on the missg generatn of men who were lost the AIDS epimic. Ltle ced Akbar, the Sunset Boulevard spot that is paratively young at 22 but is now nsired Silver Lake’s last historic gay bar. “After that gets younger, and there are lots of women—not gay women—and straight men, too.

‘DON’T TELL MAMA’ CLOS, LEAVG WEHO (AND LA) WHOUT A GAY PIANO BAR

See also: The Other Si: Historic Gay Piano Bar to Close This Weekend. The Other Si, Los Angel' last gay piano bar, is history.

The Silver Lake stutn, which served as both a baret venue and a no-ills waterg hole for generatns of homosexuals and live-mic lovers, closed for the fal time shortly after 2 a. Unr one name or another, The Other Si's lotn has been the se of a gay piano bar for 44 years. “It's the end of an era, not jt gay history, but the history of L.

After Timothy Leyba, 26, fished sgg “Over the Rabow, ” he exprsed his shock that a bar so tertwed wh gay culture uld simply vanish.

LEGENDARY LONG BEACH GAY PIANO BAR PARADISE TO CLOSE APRIL

Many of the patrons were past middle-age, but a healthy percentage of the crowd was younger — some of them not even gay. By Amanda SchwartzAfter over 40 years bs, Silver Lake piano bar and mastay of the Los Angel gay muny The Other Si closed s doors for a fal time Sunday. Along wh the Flyg Leap Café, the bar’s sister tablishment, the space will now be makg way for Hypern Public, a patrons lament the disappearance of another mastay of Silver Lake’s gay muny.

Jt this past November, Le Barco, another fixture of Silver Lake’s gay muny and a historic-cultural landmark, also shuttered s doors. (Photo urty of Don’t Tell Mama)Los Angel once aga is whout a gay piano bar wh the closg of Wt Hollywood’s “Don’t Tell Mama. It was the only Wt Coast eratn of the famo DTM New York Cy, which for more than three s has been the place where var performers started their reers and a gatherg place for gay men and heterosexual iends who shared their love of Broadway mic.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

Origally known as the Toy Tiger when opened 1978, Other Si was a refuge for olr gay men, many of whom had survived police raids and beatgs the homophobic 1960s and 1970s.

Host Lra Craven chats wh the director about the history of this landmark mid-century morn buildg and the bar and lounge that was home to the lol queer muny for s before s unfortunate closg ’s 2013 film is an sightful, provotive and poignant exploratn to the history of gay Los Angel through personal stori om the 1940s to the 1960s, set agast the backdrop of The Other Si, a venerable LA gay piano bar and a neighborhood fixture for more than forty years.

L.A.: GAY PIANO BAR CLOS TO MAKE ROOM FOR SPORTS BAR

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.

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS

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.

GAY LOS ANGEL

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.

LOS ANGEL GAY BARS

Acrdg to LongBeachize, the neighborhood gay bar was purchased by the owners of Black, a quiet LA bar not far om the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Paradise Bar is Long Beach’s olst gay piano bar and has mataed a steady prence wh the cy’s LGBTQ muny, which leav some fans of the place wonrg what will e next. LongBeachize speculat that Paradise had stggled to fill s room nightly sce 2013, but the gay piano bar scene overall greater Los Angel has been stgglg for years. The Other Si Los Feliz had been a gay piano bar suated unr the Flyg Leap Cafe on Hypern Avenue sce the early 1970s, until ’s shutterg 2012.

Owners of a long-standg gay piano bar Silver Lake, an east-si neighborhood Los Angel, announced that their tablishment will close at the end of June, and that the lotn will be turned to a sports Other Si, one of the last gay bars Silver Lake as well as one of the cy's few remag piano bars, will shut s doors June 24, acrdg to The East Sir L. 7 thgs you didn’t know about the historic gay club Oil Can Harry’s. “ ‘Over the hill’ was a mon viewpot of Valley gays, ” Adks says an terview.

AFTER 58 YEARS, ’S LAST LL FOR THE CALIPH, ONE OF SAN DIEGO’S LONGT-NNG GAY BARS

Up Stairs Lounge fire largt mass murr of gay people US history. Here, Adks shar his gay memori about eight spac that were loted on Venture Boulevard. Apache Terrory, also know as The Apache, was a popular gay bar Stud Cy on Ventura Boulevard.

Later, the Ventura Boulevard lotn beme another gay bar, Everybody’s. “Keh’s Touch of Class was a gay rtrant wh a cktail lounge and rotatg mil performers like Wayne Moore and Brenda Silas Moore. Wayne was a sger-songwrer who played all the gay piano bars, and Brenda was his ex-wife and baret performer, ” Adks says.

Los Angel is one of the bt statns on earth for gay travelers. The populatn of Wt Hollywood is roughly 40% LGBT+, makg one of the gayt neighbourhoods on earth – arguably the gayt any big cy. Hollywood was always a mag for bohemians and liberal md people – long before beg gay was legal.

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

There are many excellent gay bars and clubs Los Angel. As such, the neighborhood is also brimmg wh gay bars and clubs, and ’s no rary to spot your favore gay-famo celebri drkg one of the muny waterg hol. From wtern-themed venu to neon-l diss remiscent of Stud 54, Wt Hollywood has ’ve sorted our Los Angel gay bars by area:Wt Hollywood/WeHo | Downtown | North Hollywood | Venice/Venice Beach | PasanaWt Hollywood/WeHoWt Hollywood is the ma hub of Los Angel' huge gay scene.

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

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