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SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI
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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.
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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. 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.