THE BEST Los Angel Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

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• GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• THE BEST LOS ANGEL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LOS ANGEL
• ‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN
• GAY LONDON
• THE ABBEY, THE LEGENDARY WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR, IS FOR SALE
• WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL

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 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.

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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. 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.

Gay Bar In Los AngelTHE ABBEY FOOD & BAR IS A TWO-TIME WINNER OF THE MTV LOGO BEST GAY BAR IN THE WORLD AWARD. Caterg to a mix of mostly Lato, hipster and drag crowds, but wele to all, The New Jalis billed self as, "The Only Gay Bar Downtown" until 2015 when Precct opened down the street.

It's more like a gay Cheers—everybody knows your name, om the bartenr to the door man to the DJ.

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The Eagle is sh-only which only adds to the nt vibe of unrground gay bars of yore, which is why you may want to ask your girliends to s this one out and meet you for a last ll dance at Akbar afterward. THE OXWOOD INNWhile the days most of our gay bars are nsired gay & lbian, and a lot of them feature lbian-themed nights, The Oxwood Inn is officially the last lbian bar Los Angel proper.

‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN

BFD at Fubar (via @fubarlosangel) FUBARAs Wt Hollywood's gay bar that is furtht east on Santa Moni Boulevard, Fubar is a sexy nctn of the Boystown mastays back wt and the laid-back hnts out east. Oil Can Harry's is LA’s go-to gay wboy bar—well, our only one.

PRECINCTLast year, Precct was the first to her a new wave of gay bars openg downtown. Ually featur a live performance by drag queen royalty Jackie Beat and promot self as "a big dumb gay party, " which is sometim jt what we queers need. No list of sential Los Angel gay bars would be plete whout The Abbey.

Celebratg their 25th anniversary earlier this year, The Abbey remas a nstant force our llective gay bar experience.

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Share your cy wh global gay travelers, earn money, and help create a welg world. After all, this is ground base for the entertament dtry, and ’s relatively mon to spot a "Drag Race" queen (out of drag, of urse) or Hollywood name (maybe openly gay, maybe more discreetly so) while imbibg a drk at a Wt Hollywood gay bar, soakg sun at a gay-iendly beach, takg a gay stand-up edy show, or wanrg around laid-back hipster hood, Silver Lake, or Beverly Hills. (and y, spottg celebri like gay Olympic diver Tom Daley and his Osr-wng hband, Dt Lance Black).

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Jt north of the Santa Moni Beach borr Pacific Palisas, the approximately 3-e-long Will Rogers State Beach, fact once owned by the Hollywood legend but donated to California state after his ath, has a fabulo gay sectn dubbed “Gger Rogers Beach” wh volleyball urts and plenty of nearby f, rtrants, and cktail spots. Along wh Santa Moni Boulevard’s Revolver, Mother Lo, and Rage, Micky’s is a cherished, endurg Wt Hollywood gay nightlife stutn. Birthed om a “homophile” magaze of the same name (first published 1953), ONE hosts temporary exhibns at both this Gallery — for example, Stephen Varble’s 1970s genrqueer “gutter art” — and the USC Librari, where ONE’s ma llectn is based.

Billg self as a “rock n roll gay bar, ” and que a large one at that, expect go-go boys, unrwear parti, bear and Lato-centric nights, and drag shows wh "Drag Race" fav.

WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE

There’s some irony to the name, sce this licly divey, neighborhood gay bar is actually DTLA’s olst. A Denmark-born, openly gay skre gu, Henriksen achieved first fame treatg Hollywood rints’ cystic ae wh miraculo rults and garnered an A-list client list that’s clud Ellen DeGener, Cher, Charlize Theron, and Elton John. Only a block by foot yet a world away om Wt Hollywood’s Santa Moni Boulevard gay nightclubs and bars, boutique hotel Pet Ermage f Morocn, Spanish, and Parisian vib wh bohemian chic and a touch of rnival whimsy.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

If you really want to soak Hollywood old-school glamour and history, the gay-owned Sunset Tower Hotel on Sunset Boulevard is a mt, while more ntemporary-md visors n nsir Palihoe Wt Hollywood. Four inic Los Angel gay bars, toutg a bed history of 130 years, have permanently closed durg the panmic and many more have warned that they are on the brk of as nightlife gradually returns, some of the remag queer bars across southern California have rorted to crowdfundg a last-dch effort to stay afloat, warng that Covid-19 may brg about the end of historic stutns that have weathered the Aids crisis and multiple enomic panmic has permanently closed more than 100, 000 bars and rtrants across the Uned Stat but LA, which has been unr some form of lockdown rtrictns sce last March, the impact on nightclubs has been particularly LGBTQ+ bars shuttered Wt Hollywood last year, cludg Rage, a legendary nightclub that closed after 37 years, and Gold Coast, a 39-year-old dive bar down the street on Santa Moni boulevard. Then January, as LA bee one of the worst Covid hotspots the natn, Oil Can Harry’s, a beloved gay untry bar Stud Cy, said was closg for good after half a century of hostg queer le dancg.

”Before Covid, gay bars were already disappearg LA and other US ci due to risg rents and gentrifitn, and as onle queer datg and hookup apps grew populary. The venu most at risk of closg are often penntly owned and ter to more unrreprented groups, cludg Black and Lato muni, trans and genr-nonnformg crowds and workg-class neighborhoods, rearch has of the LA bars that are stgglg are loted outsi of the Wt Hollywood scene, which is known for terg to whe gay male crowds and is more touristy, wh owners turng to GoFundMe to make through the crisis. ”Precct has long had an unpretent vibe that ma more fortable than many gay bars, Meatball said: “It’s dgy, smells like old alhol when you walk , and there’s somethg so fortg about this dark, seedy place – gay people love that stuff.