Eagle 562 - Vis Gay Long Beach

Contents:

• AN O TO THE QUEER BARS OF LONG BEACH’S GAYBORHOOD—AND EVERY QUEER BAR THE WORLD
• THE 20 BT GAY BARS LONG BEACH
• THE BEST LONG BEACH GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LONG BEACH
• GAY NIGHTLIFE LONG BEACH
• STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED
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• MHAFTLONG BEACHMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY MAPMHAFT

AN O TO THE QUEER BARS OF LONG BEACH’S GAYBORHOOD—AND EVERY QUEER BAR THE WORLD

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 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.

THE 20 BT GAY BARS LONG BEACH

There’s also an LGBTQ swim team, other gay sports leagu, and even the cy hosts s own Pri Para and Ftival.

Even the mayor of Long Beach is an out and proud gay man, so ’s no wonr that the cy would have s own bar scene terg to the muny.

Many nsir Mhaft to be the anchor of Long Beach’s Broadway rridor, a e long stretch between Alamos Avenue and Cherry Avenue wh the cy’s nst llectn of gay tablishments.

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They also have a spac outdoor pat where gay sports leagu often gather after gam on weekends.

GAY NIGHTLIFE LONG BEACH

Gay Bar Karaoke Dance Club Night Club Drag Shows. We are a three level gay night club wh a different feel on each level.

STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK’ ON HBO, A DOCERI THAT TAK A LOOK AT 1990S POLICE INDIFFERENCE IN THE FACE OF GAY MEN GETTG MURRED

“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. Thank you to the Vis Gay Long Beach anizatn for helpg to honor to our missn.

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Broadway Bar Long Beach—the most wterly bar on the strip of Broadway that signat the good ol’ Gayborhood—is, for lack of a much more eloquent term, that bch. Dignifygly divey, unapologetilly un-morn, proudly pay-wh-sh-only, a stuc showse unlike any other, the Broadway Bar is the place L Gays take their straights to jt to lgh at them when they see the bartenr’s pour. It was and is a place of worship and protectn, pecially for an entire generatn of humans who saw more stggle, tratn, misunrstandg, stereotyp, and challeng than any gay whe du nowadays uld prehend.

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Even then, my hot-ms-ns that was my twenti, I was protective of the olr fags and dyk—and I was jt as protective of their spac, llg out younger, wannabe-classy gays for dismissg the Broadway as a dump and askg aloud why Long Beach jt uldn’t “add a ltle pat to the walls” and “stop the creepers om lurkg.

The Faln, whose ty-but-mighty space felt like the dance floor heaven of my gayt dreams, gettg lost the vio mix of DJ Yellow and unabashedly tastg the whiskey-staed lips of too many boys (and a few girls) to unt. The now-gone Paradise, s brick terr the backdrop for piano-lovg, out-and-proud homos sgg Barbara and Liza, Elton and Cher, while hostg a soft ball team fundraiser and givg you a much-need be of food before traipsg down the rt of Broadway a queer-l, happy fuckg daze. Wh each of the spac—whether they are the actual space self or, more importantly, the humans who equent them—ss the fact that, before Stonewall, when the ia of a Gayborhood beme more acceptable to the extent that a largely don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy veloped, the queer muny was shunned om every aspect of livg: From the church they grew up to the medil muny dismissg them as a disease to policians erasg them om the protectns of the law.

The only place that you uld be a known queer—even though you uld get arrted there and was not safe—was a gay bar.