As rtrictns thaw, Long Beach’s gay bars are g back after a dark year • Long Beach Bs Journal

Contents:

• AS RTRICTNS THAW, LONG BEACH’S GAY BARS ARE G BACK AFTER A DARK YEAR
• LONG BEACH GAYBORHOODS: LOVG LGBTQ LIFE THIS COASTAL COMMUNY
• GAY L.A. – LONG BEACH’S CENTRAL PLACE QUEER L.A. HISTORY
• THE BEST LONG BEACH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONG BEACH
• GAY NIGHTLIFE LONG BEACH
• THE 20 BT GAY BARS LONG BEACH
• AS RTRICTNS THAW, LONG BEACH’S GAY BARS ARE G BACK AFTER A DARK YEAR
• 1350 CLUB (CLOSED)LONG BEACHMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY MAP1350 CLUB (CLOSED)

AS RTRICTNS THAW, LONG BEACH’S GAY BARS ARE G BACK AFTER A DARK YEAR

“The bars, shops, and spac Alamos Beach have long been a refuge for gay people across our regn. In the 1960s and early ’70s, beg gay was still nsired by many a mental illns, and even the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn didn’t remove om the list of mental disorrs until 1973.

LONG BEACH GAYBORHOODS: LOVG LGBTQ LIFE THIS COASTAL COMMUNY

Club Rippl, which spent nearly 50 years on Ocean Boulevard but has sce closed after s owners retired, was, like other Long Beach gay bars, among the only safe plac those who were LGBTQ uld hang out. Garcia, the cy’s first openly gay mayor, tied the moment to a broar fight for social jtice. And April, Long Beach hosted a biannual LGBTQ nference that featured about 600 legat om around the world talkg about lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex human rights their untri.

Gay Bar Karaoke Dance Club Night Club Drag Shows.

GAY L.A. – LONG BEACH’S CENTRAL PLACE QUEER L.A. HISTORY

We are a three level gay night club wh a different feel on each level. “The Sue Long Beach is a Gay, lbian & transgenr nightclub wh a chic lounge area, karaoke, pool & weekly drag shows.

” “If your gay - try Thursday/Friday nights. 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 BEST LONG BEACH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONG BEACH

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.

GAY NIGHTLIFE LONG BEACH

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. Sce the 1950s, gay bars like The Patch and Oceania (which reopened 1972 as the now-closed Club Rippl) offered safety and muny durg a time when anti-LGBTQ police raids were still mon.

THE 20 BT GAY BARS LONG BEACH

The current mayor, Robert Garcia, is an out and proud gay man and also the first Lato to hold office Long heart of Long Beach’s gayborhood is along Broadway, stretchg om Cherry to Alamos Avenu, but we enurage you to spread your wgs and venture to the cy’s other neighborhoods such as Downtown, Belmont Shore, and Retro Row, which is home to Long Beach’s LGBTQ Communy Center. The cy’s ditn to diversy is evint at Harvey Milk Promena Park and Equaly Plaza, the first park the untry to be named after the gay civil rights lear. Thank you to the Vis Gay Long Beach anizatn for helpg to honor to our missn.

|Published on: Apr 24, 2018|Categori: Gay Bars, Bars, Breweri & We Bars|.

AS RTRICTNS THAW, LONG BEACH’S GAY BARS ARE G BACK AFTER A DARK YEAR

A brisk Monday eveng at the Mhaft, a 43-year-old gay bar suated on the Broadway Corridor, the slow bs hours of the tablishment belie the boistero jubilatn si—if only celebrated by five men lgh and nverse as they sip beer and vodka cranberry cktails.

Though the COVID-19 panmic put immense stra on muni across the board, for the Long Beach gay muny, 2020 was pecially isolatg. “I feel like we’ve lost a lot of nnectn, and this year has ma worse, ” said 46-year-old Ryan Schroer, who liv near the rtrictns on public gathergs pecially strgent on enclosed spac like bars, many of the cy’s gay bars were closed through the bulk of 2020 and to this year. Many owners feared for the survival of their bs, not jt for their own livelihoods, but for the sake of the gay muny, which has historilly found sanctuary and muny si their tablishments.

1350 CLUB (CLOSED)LONG BEACHMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY MAP1350 CLUB (CLOSED)

Though was already a blow for the gay muny to fo last year’s celebratn, this year is jt as moralizg. “It’s fely put a stra on me jt beg a gay person and not beg able to partake, ” Romero said.