Wt Hollywood’s Historic Gay Nightclub the Abbey Is Up for Sale - Eater LA

Contents:

• THE 10 BEST WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WT HOLLYWOOD
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• THE ABBEY IS FOR SALE; WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUB SEEKS NEW OWNER
• GOLD COAST, THE LEGENDARY WEHO GAY BAR, RIS OM THE DEAD
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD GAY BAR FALLY OPENS WT HOLLYWOOD
• GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL
• WEHO’S GAY BARS ARE GETTG READY TO RE-OPEN
• WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BARS

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

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THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

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. 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.

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

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THE ABBEY IS FOR SALE; WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUB SEEKS NEW OWNER

? Prented by Blued (Gay Social App). 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.

GOLD COAST, THE LEGENDARY WEHO GAY BAR, RIS OM THE DEAD

” 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. “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.

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.

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

” 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, arguably the untry’s biggt and most famo gay bar Wt Hollywood, is officially on the market.

Skip to ma ntentBeverly Hills, CAHollywood, CAStud Cy, CAWtwood-Century Cy, CACulver Cy, CAEcho Park-Silver Lake, CASherman Oaks, CABrentwood, CANorth Hollywood-Tolu Lake, CAVenice-Mar Vista, CACaliforniaTop Natnal NewsSee All CommuniWEST HOLLYWOOD, CA — The Abbey, one of the world's most well-known gay nightclubs, is for tate agents are acceptg offers for the property, which do not have an askg price. Lolly, 's bee notor as a place where patrons have a tenncy to get out what's happeng Wt Hollywoodwh ee, real-time updat om 's earned a slew of honors: MTV and Logo lled the Bt Gay Bar the World, LA Weekly named the Bt Gay Bar Los Angel and USA Today honored among the Bt Nightlife Los Angel, acrdg to the more lol news livered straight to your box. For more than 35 years, Wt Hollywood has been a Mec for queer-owned bs, hog dozens of gay bars and clubs along Santa Moni Boulevard.

A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD GAY BAR FALLY OPENS WT HOLLYWOOD

Four popular gay bars have permanently closed Wt Hollywood sce March: Flamg Saddl, Gold Coast, Rage and Gym Bar. And after a half- of employg gay men om Wt Hollywood, she is worried about what next. “They uld rent to anybody, don’t have to be a gay bar — uld be whatever they want, which would change the fabric of the muny, ” she says.

As he’s watched some of his neighborg bs go unr, Cooley not, “Gay bars and rtrants are not jt plac to eat or have a cktail. When Wt Hollywood’s Gold Coast bar shut down after 40 years last September, many speculated that the once-thrivg gay scene on Santa Moni Boulevard was down for the unt. The legendary dive bar was the third gay landmark on the thoroughfare to shut down durg the panmic, followg the closure of Rage and Flamg Saddl a month before.

GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL

Overstreet and his bs partner also owned Oil Can Harry’s, the landmark Country Wtern gay bar Stud Cy that shuttered last December after 52 years. (Found 1968, was the olst gay bar Los Angel—and a lnchg pad for performers om k.

WEHO’S GAY BARS ARE GETTG READY TO RE-OPEN

Rage is returng this fall unr the ownership of former NSYNC star Lance Bass, who vows that his revamped Robertson Boulevard dis will reopen as the biggt gay nightclub the world. (Bass is also a partner Roc’s, the wildly succsful gay bar and rtrant across the street. ’s gay and nightlife scene: Wt Hollywood entreprenr Rob Novger, who recently rema the dty Circ of Books to a glossy porn emporium, began eyeg the dilapidated Gold Coast property soon after the For Sale sign went up.

We’ve both wanted to build a bar that would be an alternative to all the loud gay Weho plac wh the bad drks and awful lightg. “I thk the whole notn of ‘gay bars’ seems a b dated, ” says Schtag.

WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BARS

There’s no longer jt gay or straight—everythg is so much more fluid. Check out pics of the new neighborhood gay bar that has FINALLY opened the Cy of Wt Hollywood at 8737 Santa Moni Boulevard.

New neighborhood gay bar – Photo by Dan Myglot for WEHO TIMES New neighborhood gay bar Wt Hollywood – WEHO TIMESOwner Jay Krymis, who also owns the space formerly known as Fubar, loted at 7994 Santa Moni Boulevard, hoped to have his brand-new neighborhood gay bar open on Halloween weekend, but the bs venture has been plagued wh lays that didn’t allow them to sh on that by weekend on the Rabow officially announced the closg of FUBAR Weho on October 10th via an Instagram Story. Liquor license number 638092 pertag to 8737 Santa Moni Boulevard still holds the bs name as Dolly She, as of the publishg of this piece, which Krymis says is not the real name he settled thg is for certa about the new neighborhood bar Wt Hollywood: The owner says the bar will be “gay, gay, gay.

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