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Contents:

• THE FRAT HOE IS THE LAST GAY BAR STANDG GARN GROVE
• GAY BARS ORANGE COUNTY, CA: THE COMPLETE LIST (2023)
• GARN GROVE HAS HISTORY OF HARASSG, PERSECUTG GAY MUNY
• AN INPLETE HISTORY OF GAY N LBIAN OC
•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• OC GAY TIMELE
• THE FRAT HOE IS THE LAST GAY BAR STANDG GARN GROVE
• GAY MEN - FRIENDS OF THE OC FRAT HOE BAR
• THE FRAT HOE IS THE LAST GAY BAR STANDG GARN GROVE

THE FRAT HOE IS THE LAST GAY BAR STANDG GARN GROVE

M., but Shelly Heier and Cris McKnight — “two straight chicks nng a gay bar, ” they quip — are bit the afternoons, gettg the place clean, stocked and ready for historilly nservative Garn Grove — as recently as last Tuday the Cy Council rejected a motn to fly a rabow flag at Cy Hall, but agreed to light up a clock tower the same lors for Pri Month — don’t have the welg reputatn of, say, Laguna Beach, Long Beach or Santa Ana, once boasted as many as 15 gay bars, acrdg to a recent had nam like the Mug, the Happy Hour, DOK Wt, the Upbeat, Rumour Hazz and the Knotty Keg. “Everybody knows when you’re gog to Garn Grove and you’re gay [that] you’re gog to the Frat Hoe bee that’s the only thg open, gay, Garn Grove, ” said Monique Chantel Dupre, a drag performer featured the “Frat Hoe” documentary, which bowed at the recent Newport Beach Film Ftival. “I’d known for a while that there was a gay bar a few blocks om my hoe, and I thought was jt so bizarre that there was a church next to , ” she said.

But, eventually they stopped g at all after she kept rejectg their promised her father that she’d “keep open and keep gay.

GAY BARS ORANGE COUNTY, CA: THE COMPLETE LIST (2023)

“Back the day, [LGBTQ people] didn’t have nowhere to go, so this was a safe place and a safe haven for the gay people to e, ” Heier said. ”The days, their ctomers tend to be majory Lato men, and while they ed to be open 365 days of the year, they’re now closed Tudays bee there isn’t enough apps, social media, latg real tate sts sparked by gentrifitn, and creasg acceptance of the gay muny are leadg to ls patronage of tradnal gay bars, which mt also pete wh the predomantly straight bars’ gay night said that if wasn’t for the fact that she owns the buildg, the Frat Hoe might not still be bs. “We stay open maly bee of our longevy and the history that we have, ” Heier few tradnal gay bars around the unty that rema have bee, many ways, isolated pockets of the LGBTQ muny, acrdg to Lus Hilrbrand, a film and media studi profsor at UC Irve.

’s gay bar scene, told matchbooks »Sarah Nguyen, who was named Ms. Orange County Gay Pri last year, said she didn’t know her lol history until she began workg across the unty le — at the LGBTQ Center Long Beach.

GARN GROVE HAS HISTORY OF HARASSG, PERSECUTG GAY MUNY

Orange County Gay Pri last year and is popularly known as “Johnny Wt Street, ” after Laguna Beach’s famoly gay beach — said he didn’t learn about this queer history until he was olr.

“It’s kd of sad bee you hear the legendary stori of Garn Grove beg as gay as Long Beach and... Jonathan Alexanr, a UCI English profsor, said that historilly bars were one of the few plac that gay and lbian people uld meet public spac. Bee cross-drsg and dancg wh same-sex partners was illegal much of the untry before the gay civil rights movement took hold, the bars often had to disguise themselv, explaed Alexanr.

This is one of the shortt blog posts on the se bee, well, Orange County jt don’t have many gay bars. Frat Hoe (Garn Grove, CA) Addrs: 8112 W Garn Grove Blvd, Garn Grove, CA 92844Acrdg to the LA Tim, there was a time when Garn Grove was full of gay bars. Gay Bars Near Orange CountyHamburger Mary’s (Long Beach CA)Addrs: 330 Pe Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802The Hamburger Mary’s anchise is legendary.

AN INPLETE HISTORY OF GAY N LBIAN OC

Growg up Garn Grove, I always knew there were gay bars the cy, but wasn’t until later that I realized how gay Garn Grove actually was. Long Beach police discrimate agast gay men unrver stg operatns, judge says.

 CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

Ignorg Gay Pri Flag. Councilwoman Kim Nguyen wanted to make a simple gture and add a cy uncil agenda em to display the gay pri flag si Cy Hall.

The fact that her fellow cy uncil members would not allow to even be put on the agenda based on the “lack of a flag policy” and the hypothetils of people wantg to fly a Communist flag or, as uncil member Phat Bui stated, “a Mlim flag, ” was thly veiled homophobia. History of gay harassment.

 CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

It tails the systematic harassment the police partment ed for entrapment of homosexuals sanctned by the Cy of Garn Grove. The urt documents expla, tail, how a Garn Grove vice officer, Officer Ricketts, went to The Mug, a lol gay bar, and soliced sex wh a bar patron named Gilbert Arnold Ma.

Police persecute gay muny. Orange County’s first LGBTQ+ Center, at the time named the Gay Communy Center of Orange County and loted on Euclid Street, was repeatedly vandalized.

OC GAY TIMELE

Homophobia, lawsus.

There wasn’t jt actn and stutnalized homophobia by the cy but. When discsg the gay muny Garn Grove Councilman Raymond Ltrel said, “If walks like a duck, talks like a duck, then is a duck. In 1985, the Cy of Garn Grove lost a feral lawsu brought agast by the owners of Mac’s Landg, a lol gay bar.

The Pacific Ocean begs sculptg Laguna's famo gay Wt Street Beach. Laguna's first wave of gays arriv as members of the early movie crews.

THE FRAT HOE IS THE LAST GAY BAR STANDG GARN GROVE

Until both are misned the '90s, an untold number of mostly closeted gay and lbian servicepeople will pass through them. Lured by cheap rents, other gay bars sprg up the cy throughout the next 10 years, cludg Rumour Hazz, the Tiki Hut, the Mug, the Iron Spur, the Old Bavarian Inn, the Knotty Keg, the Hound's Tooth, the Ranger, the Saddle Club and DOK Wt.

For a while, gay bars Garn Grove actually outnumber Wt Hollywood's. Take the Ksey Study, which claimed that 10 percent of the populatn is gay, and apply to the approximately 1, 100 ballplayers who've ever put on an Angels uniform durg the team's 33 years.

MAY 1966 The Santa Ana Register (later known as The Orange County Register) reports on a “crackdown of spected homosexuals” the Newport Pier area, men who have allegedly been proposng unrver police officers. MARCH 1968 The Advote, which has jt started publishg and will eventually grow to “the natnal gay and lbian newsmagaze, ” reports that an OC man has recently lost his home and r suranc after a neighbor saw him kissg a man his back yard.

GAY MEN - FRIENDS OF THE OC FRAT HOE BAR

1971 Christ Chapel Metropolan Communy Church, affiliated wh the church's growg movement of gay-tolerant nomatns, opens s doors Santa Ana. FEBRUARY 1971 Cal State Fullerton's Experimental College offers a urse lled Gay Life and Lib: A Study In Homosexual Life Styl and Polics.

APRIL 1972 The pk mailbox outsi the Costa Ma home of John Rule tells you that you've found what will eventually evolve to the Orange County Gay N Lbian Communy Servic Center—one of the first the untry.

THE FRAT HOE IS THE LAST GAY BAR STANDG GARN GROVE

7, 1974 Police harassment of gay bars Garn Grove has been an ongog problem. ” Another bystanr is ls sympathetic: “I was aware [of all the gay bars town]. 1976 Exod Internatnal, a “reparative therapy” group that attempts to change gays and lbians to perfect specimens of heterosexualy, is found at Anaheim's Melodyland Christian Center by Michael Bsee and Gary Cooper.

14, 1977 The San Clemente Sun-Post reports on the growg number of ary men om nearby Camp Pendleton who are g to town and prostutg themselv to olr gay men.