THE 10 BEST Wt Hollywood Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

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• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• THE 10 BEST WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WT HOLLYWOOD
• 52 ESSENTIAL GAY BARS AND NIGHTS AROUND LOS ANGEL
• THE BEST LOS ANGEL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LOS ANGEL
• GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL
• THE ABBEY, THE LEGENDARY WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR, IS FOR SALE
• BT GAY BARS IN LOS ANGEL
• THE BEST LOS ANGEL GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS LOS ANGEL
• 52 ESSENTIAL GAY BARS AND NIGHTS AROUND LOS ANGEL
• GAY CALIFORNIA
• LOS ANGEL GAY SNAS
• A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

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. 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.

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.

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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. Utterly breathtakg, this inic tablishment was crowned LOGO's "Bt Gay Bar the World, " makg a mt-see LA’s gay nightlife scene.

When opened 1973, Jewel’s Catch One was the natn’s first black gay and lbian dis. This historic Spanish flamen and tapas bar Sunset Boulevard, while not a gay venue per se, El Cid hosts some fabulo gay-themed shows that are not to be missed. A low-key, cise-y dive bar Mother Lo claims to be the olst gay bar Wt Hollywood.

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Try changg or rettg your filtersShowg PlacePlac The Boulevard Pasana LGBTQ+ $ The Boulevard pris self on beg Pasana’s only gay bar. It’s a gay bar, ’s a straight bar, ’s a trans bar, ’s a drag bar, ’s a karaoke bar, ’s a bar you n go to no matter who you are and feel fortable.

The gay-owned, gay-managed bistro nverted s loadg area to an attractive pat space and stalled 10, 000 Christmas lights that hang above ctomers as they de. “As a fay-owned, gay-owned bs, we always want to keep that neighborhood inty, ” Shaw said. The bar origally opened as a gay bar 1979 but is now open to everyone.

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We’ve piled a list of some of the bt gay bars and their acpanyg nights Los Angel County.

Logo has lled The Abbey “The Bt Gay Bar the World. And The Abbey’s probably the most straight-iendly gay bar around (hello, straight bartenrs and bachelorette parti).

Though some of more jad gay Angelenos will sff at the Abbey’s fx-fancy dér and normie vib, you n’t ny ’s got a lot gog for . For stance: How many other gay bars do you know that serve bnch? Fita Canta looks like a gay Wahoo’s Fish Tas and serv food, while Revolver and Micky’s are more of dance clubs.

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Flamg SaddlThis a’t your grandpa’s gay wboy bar. Gold Coast is loted at 8228 Santa Moni Boulevard and Tnks is loted at 8809 Santa Moni SportsbarFor gays who prefer football to Gaga, Gym is a wele alternative. Pl, ’s your bt way to meet a hot, gay gby player.

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. 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.

’s eratn of The Eagle is probably the bt gay bar L. 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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Its ntued existence is pecially important given the closure of Lato gay bars like Le Barco Silver Lake. Expect filthy jok, sexy onlookers and some of the bt alternative drag performance an eye out for the next Trannyshack at their l CampoThe last remnant of Hypern Avenue’s gay tablishments (R.

Downtown PrecctThe newt gay bar to open L. Precct has prented self as a “rock n roll gay bar, ” meang ’s more of a levis ‘n’ chucks kd of place ak to the Eagle or Fltle.

RedleWhile we n’t ment wh certaty about Redle sce ’s not fully open yet and has jt held special events and a soft openg so far, Redle seems to promise a more upsle DTLA gay bar experience (perhaps simplified, Redle will be the Abbey to Precct’s Eagle).

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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). ), which ters to unrserved gay ladi and Latos, offer Long Beachers the chance to shake all night long.

RoosterfishVenice Beach’s Roosterfish sr pots for beg the only Wtsi gay bar not Wt Hollywood. What better way is there to fish off a big gay day at the beach than wh a stiff drk at Roosterfish?

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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. Won’t fd a sgle gay bar Northeast L.

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) is a great, leathery dive wh cheap drks, karaoke and TVs playg gay porn, a movie or HGTV, pendg on the night. 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. Get ready to celebrate love, culture, and fabulons at “My Big Gay Hump Middle Eastern Weddg”!

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? Prented by Blued (Gay Social App). Gay Bar In Los AngelTHE ABBEY FOOD & BAR IS A TWO-TIME WINNER OF THE MTV LOGO BEST GAY BAR IN THE WORLD AWARD.

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. 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. ” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.

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.

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“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.

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

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. ” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist.

On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. The Abbey, a historic gay bar Wt Hollywood, has been put up for nearly 10, 000 square feet venue is listed onle by a mercial real tate group as "a generatnal purchase opportuny to acquire one of the world’s most inic nightclubs and rtrants. Eventually, grew to a proment gay bar and rtrant.

Wrg for The Advote 2015, Cooley relled that "even 1991, the gay bars of the day were secretive. They were plac mostly only other gay people socialized.

That was a radil ia for a gay bar at that time. "John Duran, who held a seat on the Wt Hollywood Cy Council om 2001 until 2020, told the Los Angel Time, "[Cooley's] visn was plete alignment wh the cy to revigorate historic Boystown and create a world-renowned gay tablishment. From Your Se ArticlWt Hollywood Gay Bar The Abbey Su Patron After Dggg Claims ›Kamala Harris Learns to Snap a Fan From Shangela at the Abbey Gay Bar ›Is the Abbey Still a Gay Bar?

After all, this is ground base for the entertament dtry, and ’s relatively mon to spot a "Drag Race" queen (out of drag, of urse) or Hollywood name (maybe openly gay, maybe more discreetly so) while imbibg a drk at a Wt Hollywood gay bar, soakg sun at a gay-iendly beach, takg a gay stand-up edy show, or wanrg around laid-back hipster hood, Silver Lake, or Beverly Hills.