52 Essential Gay Bars And Nights Around Los Angel | LAist

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• THE 10 BEST WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WT HOLLYWOOD
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• 52 ESSENTIAL GAY BARS AND NIGHTS AROUND LOS ANGEL
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• BT GAY BARS IN LOS ANGEL
• THE ABBEY IS FOR SALE; WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUB SEEKS NEW OWNER

THE 10 BEST WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WT HOLLYWOOD

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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.

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A WeHo landmark, Circ of Books closed 2019—a Netflix documentary chronicl s storied and very LGBTQ past—but drag queen and gay porn film director Chi Chi LaRue revived the space as Chi Chi LaRue's Circ 2020 as a lorful, upmarket store that clus adult goods, accsori, and well-curated selectns of ffee-table tom and lol art. Hollywood skre gu to the stars sce the 1970s (clients have clud Barbra Streisand, Ellen DeGener, Cher, Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Elton John, David Bowie, and Kylie Mogue), the Denmark-born, openly gay Ole Henriksen opened a namake WeHo Spa off Sunset Boulevard 1998, and remas a favore, discreet, zy oasis for sk and body pamperg treatments wh his excellent le of products today. For dancg, visors n look forward to a brand new Santa Moni Boulevard gay megaclub, reportedly, the USA's largt, to open the space formerly occupied by 37-year-old dance club Rage, which closed permanently September 2020.

Owner Lance Bass, the former N'Sync member, is also behd the gay sports bar and rtrant Roc's WeHo, which opened 2019 and boasts an illtrated and artifact-filled wall pictg the timele of LGBTQ history on the Wt Coast (a llaboratn wh USC Librari' ONE Archiv Foundatn). A few highlights clu openly gay executive chef St Jon' Mederranean-fluenced vegan rtrant Crossroads Kchen, the stunng rooftop seafood venue Catch L. A listg for The Abbey and The Chapel popped up on the Brandon Michaels Group real tate webse on Hollywood's Santa Moni Boulevard is known for hog some of the most famo and popular gay bars and clubs Los Angel.

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And The Abbey’s probably the most straight-iendly gay bar around (hello, straight bartenrs and bachelorette parti).

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Gym also supports gay sports leagu, helpg to erase our memori of high school douchebags and replace them wh a way to bond and meet like-md gays that go beyond the bar. It’s the trendit and most eclectic gay bar the area, hostg a wi variety of nights, om craft night to bgo to edy nights.

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Btlg as may be on weekends, ’s a great neighborhood bar durg the week, when s solid jebox sps B-52’s, The Smhs and other alt-queer favor, and on Sundays, when Rudy Bl’s Mixtape daytime DJ event and the Rocksteady Lounge at night offer somethg other than the typil gay bar experience. It’s one of the only gay bars to ter to the leather and gay fetish crowds, but s sizable pat also make a great place to gather and—gasp—actually talk and be heard. ChiChi is a small gay bar Montebello that serv mostly Lato rints, playg a mix of dance mic and Lat pop and rock.

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52 ESSENTIAL GAY BARS AND NIGHTS AROUND LOS ANGEL

The Broadway Corridor, which stretch along Broadway between Belmont Shore and the East Village area of Downtown Long Beach, has a smatterg of gay bars nveniently led up as a built- pub crawl, om the youthful Faln (1435 E Broadway) to the bearier Br (1744 E Broadway) and Me Shaft (1720 E Broadway) and girl-iendly Sweetwater Saloon (1201 E Broadway). Artia BarThis longstandg spot (formerly known as The Dolph) is ltle known outsi of sleepy Redondo Beach, but ’s an oasis the otherwise gay sert that is the South Bay and s surroundg areas. ) is a great, leathery dive wh cheap drks, karaoke and TVs playg gay porn, a movie or HGTV, pendg on the night.

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And y, Pasana isn’t the Valley, but ’s worth notg that this rich, manicured suburb has s very own divey gay bar right off the Gold Le lled the Boulevard (3199 E Foothill Blvd. The word “gay” lls to md our special knack for fdg the light the darkns, for buildg the dance floor off to the si of the cel world.

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Let’s take a look at some of the bt gay bars Ameri, om the open-air, vil-may-re spac Wt Hollywood to the neighborhood pub downtown St. The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur. —Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli.

—Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars. When the bar fally reopened Sprg 2022, an entire borough’s worth of gays celebrated by floodg the new back pat all summer and Gger’s has been crowd wh queers ever sce. It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria.

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It gave the boys a place to gather the ‘80s, the first outpost that helped tablish the South End as the Boston gayborhood.

While other gay bars of the time were basements or board up, Club Cafe faced by Columb Avenue wh floor to ceilg wdows.

Big Chicks serv a diverse crowd— ’s young, ’s old, ’s one of the only plac you’ll see gay men and lbians together! The legendary hoeband, Diamondback, has a 25, 000-song repertoire and a boot llectn that uld make a gay wboy cry. While you won’t fd any Pri flags at Farraguts, you will undoubtedly hear Cele Dn and Melissa Etheri blarg om the bar’s dty, old jebox and, hontly, isn’t that jt as gay?