A historic art lony wh a long-tablished gay muny, Laguna Beach is Orange County’s leadg LGBT cy. Stay such gay-iendly spots as the Surf and Sand Rort, a spectacular oceanont luxury hotel that’s also home to the timate (and LGBT-iendly) Aquaterra Spa. Swim and surf seclud v and sunny beach (cludg such gay-popular stretch as Wt Beach and Mounta Road Beach), then browse for high-qualy art Laguna’s numero galleri.
Contents:
- THE RISE AND FALL OF LAGUNA BEACH, A GAY CALIFORNIA HOTSPOT
- FOOD + FUN AT SOCAL’S ORIGAL GAY BEACH
- COLUMN: WOULD HATE DISPT A DRAG STORY HOUR GAY-IENDLY LAGUNA BEACH?
- COLUMN: WOULD HATE DISPT A DRAG STORY HOUR GAY-IENDLY LAGUNA BEACH?
THE RISE AND FALL OF LAGUNA BEACH, A GAY CALIFORNIA HOTSPOT
Remarkably priste and loted on the southern end of town, Wt Street Beach is Laguna's ma gay beach. * laguna beach gay beach *
Thankfully the world has evolved and although gay bars will always be need, wanted and loved, ’s now not unnscnable for everyone, no matter of who they love, to party, drk and enjoy the night together, unr the same roof.
There was a time when Laguna Beach had s staple gay bars, which were a much need prence durg their reign of the beach cy, and s very possible that the future, more will make their way back to Laguna Beach, but until then, the cy is filled wh optns galore. In 1926, a liquor store and a hardware store opened on the rner of Pearl Street and Pacific Coast Highway, and 1946 beme s current namake The Seahorse, which was actually Laguna Beach’s first gay bar. For many years, operated as a secret waterg hole for the lol gay muny until was eventually turned back to retail as Laguna Auto Parts…and now ’s back to s origal roots.
FOOD + FUN AT SOCAL’S ORIGAL GAY BEACH
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It was famoly known as Laguna’s preement gay beach for s and is still extremely popular wh the LGBTQ muny. The welg vib created by the gay muny.
I was 18, I was terrified, and I wanted to go to my first gay club, the Boom Boom Room Laguna Beach, California, a seasi town that, before s rise to promence via an MTV realy seri and Bravo’s gural Real Hoewiv seri, was known as a queer-iendly enclave Orange County.
COLUMN: WOULD HATE DISPT A DRAG STORY HOUR GAY-IENDLY LAGUNA BEACH?
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I knew that, only two years before, a football player at a nearby high school had nearly beaten a gay man to ath on this beach, one of several lol hate crim aimed at gay men. From the late 1990s to the 2010s, through a batn of AIDS-related aths, ’80s-era nservatism, and skyrocketg home pric, the rabow-hued cy lost s gay she.
Queer enclav New York Cy, like Park Slope (formerly a lbian hub) or the Wt Village (now more associated wh celebri, fance bros, and others who n afford s risg real tate pric), or Silver Lake Los Angel, aren’t as gay as they were the ’80s and ’90s. San Francis neighborhoods like SoMa or streets like Polk, oime gay lchps a cy synonymo wh sexualy, are more geared toward the flux of tech dollars. Even the Castro, the world’s gay mastay, has seen a cle new LGBTQ rints.
COLUMN: WOULD HATE DISPT A DRAG STORY HOUR GAY-IENDLY LAGUNA BEACH?
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Now an effort by longtime queer rints and one forward-thkg cy official is attemptg to brg Laguna Beach’s gay past back to life.
After the cy resigned the area along Ma Beach to turn to a public promena, the gay tablishments—and crowd—moved south to a two-block stretch along PCH between Callpe and Crs streets.