Gold Coast, the Qutsential Queer Dive Bar, Was the “Gay Cheers” of Wt Hollywood | Them

Contents:

• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
• JULI’, THE GAY-ELR DIVE BAR OF THE VILLAGE, GETS LANDMARKED
• THIS LEGENDARY CHIGO GAY DIVE BAR JT CLOSED AFTER 40 YEARS
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
• GOLD COAST, THE QUTSENTIAL QUEER DIVE BAR, WAS THE “GAY CHEERS” OF WT HOLLYWOOD
• THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

San Diego’s Gay Dive Bar Hillcrt.

Known for our iendly staff, stiff pours, and a place where all are wele, Number 1 Fifth Avenue is a gay dive bar the heart of San Diego. 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.

JULI’, THE GAY-ELR DIVE BAR OF THE VILLAGE, GETS LANDMARKED

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 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.

THIS LEGENDARY CHIGO GAY DIVE BAR JT CLOSED AFTER 40 YEARS

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. A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light’s disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney.

The mixture of vodka and soda water, long known rmally as “gay water” the LGBTQ muny, is the brachild of 30-year-old gay entreprenr Spencer Hodson. He noted that the nctn aims “to stigmatize the word ‘gay’ by brgg reprentatn to spac that have not tradnally featured queer products, such as bars, liquor stor, grocery stor, rtrants, hotels and more. Hodson, who is fancg Gay Water wh his own money pl backg om fay and iends, his brightly lored ns are leang to their gayns stead of avoidg .

He told CNN that he worked wh a queer signer to base Gay Water’s red, purple, green and orange lor scheme on pop art and 1990s televisn shows om Nickeloon, a ble work for children.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg. A statement on the Gay Water webse not that the word “gay” appears barely any products outsi of Pri Month each June.

THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI

Acrdg to the statement, the new cktail reclaims the ia that “gay means happy.

) However, there are plans to relote the popular gay dive bar a short distance away to 45 Send Ave.

Bar manager Randy Weberg, whose brother Neil is the Boiler Room's owner, said they have a lease until September, wh a month-to-month arrangement through the fall and, perhaps January, until the new space is 's a look si the space, which New York magaze scribed as a "iendly, unobtsive, post-gay gay bar that helped put the queer East Village bar scene on the map. Juli’, Gay-Elr Dive Bar of the Village, Gets Landmarked. The cy’s olst ntually operatg gay bar, wh s stuc-petalled exterr and permanent perfume of sizzlg burger fat, still fills up every night.

GOLD COAST, THE QUTSENTIAL QUEER DIVE BAR, WAS THE “GAY CHEERS” OF WT HOLLYWOOD

By that pot, Juli’ was 50 years (not all of them gay) to s fortable tenure as agreeably grizzled, here-and-there greasy lol. ” The days, the doors open at four (noon on the weekends) and there are still a few hags but also boppg twks explorg the cy via TikTok among the grayg fixtur, many wh rent-stabilized apartments — the Village havg turned om gay ghetto to bankers’ bnch zone long ago.

” On April 21, three gay men, members of the gay activist anizatn the Mattache Society (namake of the parti n by John Cameron Mchell), protted State Liquor Authory guidance agast servg homosexuals by openly clarg themselv and orrg drks ont of a journalist and photographer. Marks Place, which posted a sign readg “IF YOU ARE GAY, PLEASE GO AWAY, ” was unfortunately closed; the manager of the Howard Johnson’s on Sixth Avenue, well-known as a pickup spot, unhatgly brought them three bourbons.

THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA

(“I drk, ” he told the reporter, “and who’s to say whether I’m a homosexual or not. It has been a long time sce so-lled viat were refed service at Juli’, or for that matter any other bar this great gay cy, but the regnn is still a happy one.

Before settled as a gay landmark, was a hangout for newsmen like Walter Wchell, and the tabloid-photographer-tr Weegee ed to pick up msag and mail there the 1940s. Buford and her hband, a straight uple, may have seemed unlikely to renew one of the cy’s queer stutns, but their tert was ially practil: Eugene Buford had worked bar secury before beg an owner, and gay bars offered bs wh fewer fights than their straight unterparts. (The Bufords also owned the now-shuttered gay bars Two Potato, on Greenwich Street, and the Bike Stop uptown.

“After hearg the stori and really gettg to know the muny, ” she says, “I told them, ‘Listen, as long as I’m here, this will always be Juli’ and will always be a gay bar.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

Related: Chigo gay bars and clubsAfter several months of closure, the Manhandler reopened late summer, makg full e of s outdoor yard for socially distanced drkg. The word “gay” speaks to our abily to do exactly that.

The word “gay” lls to md our special knack for fdg the light the darkns, for buildg the dance floor off to the si of the cel world. Let’s take a look at some of the bt gay bars Ameri, om the open-air, vil-may-re spac Wt Hollywood to the neighborhood pub downtown St. The olst gay bar North Carola (found 1976) draws every tegory and mographic.

The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur. —Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli.