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• THE 10 BEST CALIFORNIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CALIFORNIA
• THE 10 BEST CALIFORNIA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS CALIFORNIA
• THE 10 BEST WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WT HOLLYWOOD
•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• GAY & LBIAN BARS & CLUBS THE INLAND EMPIRE
• THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS
• THE BEST LOS ANGEL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LOS ANGEL
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• THE CENTRAL COAST HAS A THRIVG LGBTQ MUNY, SO WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY BARS? 
•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI
• GAY MONTEREY TRAVEL GUI
• GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL
• GAY BARS GREATER PALM SPRGS

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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.

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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. Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr Bars & Clubs - Inland Empire Skip to ntentGay & Lbian Bars & Clubs the Inland EmpireHome/Drks/Gay & Lbian Bars & Clubs the Inland Empire Gay & Lbian Bars & Clubs the Inland EmpireInland Empire.

2016-01-07T21:09:29-08:00 The Inland Empire has plenty of gay and lbian (GLBT/LGBT) bars and night clubs. Riversi Gay & Lbian Bars Club VIP – Bar & club wh live DJs and 18+ entrance -Riversi near Riversi Plaza The Managerie – Bar, dance floor and pat -Downtown RiversiUpland Gay & Lbian Bar Club Oasis – Upland- 18+ Wends-Sun. Pomona Gay & Lbian Bars The Hook-Up – Pomona – Je box, full bar, vio gam, pool table Alibi East – Pomona – Popular statn the Wtern Inland Empire.

340 Rtrant and Nightclub – Pomona – Popular upsle Bernardo Gay & Lbian Bars 340 East – The newly opened San Bernardo branch of the very popular 340 Pomona.

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Victorville Gay & Lbian Bar Club Amnia, 3rd Wednday of the month, 14269 7th St., Victorville, CA 92395, 2 dance floors, Gogo dancers, VIP lounge, large smokg pat. Palm Sprgs Gay & Lbian Bars – The world famo hot spot for the LGBT muny! Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.

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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.

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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.

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

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On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. Tripadvisor performs checks on TSan Francis, CA354 ntributnsThe Pilsner is a tried and te sual gay bar that offers iendly service.

Most prompts for gay porn, meanwhile, explibly flt to people of ambiguoly LatX scent wh an unrcut hairstyle. Is that ditive of the typ of gay porn the mols were traed on?

THE CENTRAL COAST HAS A THRIVG LGBTQ MUNY, SO WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY BARS? 

A gay uple, as picted by Unstable Diffn. At the wtern end is Urban MO's Bar & Grill, a "hetero-iendly gay bar" and lol favore. Consired the world's first and only gay-owned brewery, 's a great spot to grab a pizza or two and make iends at a munal table, while enjoyg the many beers on tap.

It was once voted one of the bt gay bars Ameri by Yelp. Wh ep red walls and chanliers, SRO Lounge is a legendary gay bar that livers a glam but laid-back vibe. As a teen, Rory Uribe fantasized about gog to a gay bar or club and fally beg able to be unabashedly gay public.

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Click to enlarge Photo Courty Of Matthew Lalanne GAY CLUB ALCHEMISTS Daniel Gomez (left) and Frank Domguez (right) are known for turng typil bars to hugely succsful, LGBTQ-clive parti.

So Uribe always thought the gay bars Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo unti would provi that much-need and missg support system and work. "I've dreamed of gog to a gay bar sce I was like, 16, " Uribe told New Tim.

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The lack of LGBTQ-specific nightlife on the Central Coast is an issue much of the lol gay and trans muny is forced to work around.

Santa Barbara's once thrivg gay club scene dwdled, and eventually pletely disappeared, as varyg sexual orientatns and genr inti beme more wily accepted and datg apps beme more readily available. But 's left the Central Coast whout a gay bar reach—the neart (acrdg to mor and Google) are Ventura, Frno, and San Jose—and many lols say the safety gay bars and clubs provi is still very much need, pecially the more nservative portns of the state.

Uribe, who is now a stunt at Allan Hanck College, fally ma their gay bar dream e te this sprg while visg a iend San Francis. Like so many other LGBTQ rints the area and across the natn, Uribe helped start an anizatn dited to givg gay, trans, and queer dividuals a safe space to meet up and build support systems.

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Uribe and other Hanck stunts revalized the school's long idle Queers and Alli Club last year, and the group regularly hosts meetgs, ffee meetups, and parti, which Uribe dubbed "gay bash.

He wanted to spice thgs up by startg a group that would make easier for lol LGBTQ dividuals to meet, and was mullg over the ia one day when he walked to the now closed Metro Brewg Company San Luis Obispo and jt happened to spot two gay upl si.

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"And I was like, 'Oh my god, is this a gay bar? One bar owner told SLOQueerdos that he didn't want his tablishment to be known as a gay bar, Domguez said.

Still, Domguez and his partner— bs and life—Daniel Gomez, who also -owns SLOQueerdos, agree that openg a gay bar on the Central Coast would be challengg.

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Rent is stly, liquor licens are hard to e by, and they qutned whether a gay bar SLO would have enough nsistent bs to stay open.

While gay bars do provi LGBTQ muni wh sential social opportuni, Gomez said 's easier than ever to lk up through readily accsible onle datg apps like Tr and Grdr. I thk [onle datg] has a huge impact on the gay club scene. "We jt make clubs to gay clubs.

Chufar and Johns are married, and they're both board members at Santa Barbara's Gay and Lbian Bs Associatn, a nonprof that funds scholarships awards each year to llege-bound and votnal stunts across the unty. The anizatn was ianally created the '80s to support gay- and lbian-owned bs the area. As gayns gradually beme more wily accepted, so did gay bs, and that arm of the nonprof eventually halted s work.

The same thg happened wh Santa Barbara's gay nightlife, Chufar and Johns said. Johns has lived Santa Barbara sce the '70s, and said there were about six gay bars Santa Barbara alone at one time.

The Wildt Lounge hosts "gay nights" every Sunday, but Johns said, "who wants to go out on a Sunday? Younger generatns are g datg apps to fd other gays town now rather than gay bars, and Chufar and Johns said that's OK.