Oil Can Harry's, L.A.'s Historic Gay Le-Dancg Bar, Shutters

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• HARRY STYL HS GAY BAR HELL’S KCHEN WH KENDALL JENNER, NATURALLYBY RICHARD LAWSONDECEMBER 10, 2013SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVENO DOUBT SENDG LARRY STYLSON 'SHIPPERS TO FS OF SHRIEKG HYSTERIA—SO BASILLY A NORMAL MONDAY EVENG FOR THEM—NEWS, IF WE N LL THAT, BROKE YTERDAY AFTERNOON THAT HARRY STYL, THE MSY-HAIRED CHIEF HEARTTHROB OF THE TIGHT-PANTED QUTET ONE DIRECTN, HAS BEEN SPOTTED EQUENTG A NEW YORK CY GAY BAR. NOW NOW, NONE OF THIS IS NFIRMED THE MOST RIGORO JOURNALISTIC SENSE, BUT US WEEKLY SAID HAPPENED, AND WHY WOULD US WEEKLY EVER BE WRONG? BUT LOOK, NO ONE SHOULD GET ALL THAT EXCED ANYWAY, BEE HARRY BROUGHT A GIRL THERE. THE BAR WAS THE REASONABLY LOW-KEY, IF VAGUELY CHICHI, HELL’S KCHEN SPOT THERAPY (NOT EXACTLY THE COCK), AND THE GIRL WAS HARRY’S SUPPOSED GIRLIEND, KENDALL JENNER, A HALF-SISTER OF FUTURE QUEEN OF THE GALAXY KIM KARDASHIAN. APPARENTLY HARRY HAS BEEN TO THERAPY BEFORE. WHICH, HMM... MAYBE HE JT GO BEE ’S LIKE THE ONLY PLACE HE’S GUARANTEED NOT TO BE ACSTED BY SCREAMG YOUNG WOMEN? I MEAN, I’M SURE EVEN HE GETS SICK OF THAT AFTER A WHILE. SO HE GO TO A GAY BAR FULL OF ADULT GAY MEN AND, I DUNNO, BRGS HIS DATE THERE. IT MAK SOME STRANGE SENSE. WHATEVER THE REASON, THAT’S THE SCUTTLEBUTT. THAT HARRY STYL WENT THERE. TO THAT GAY BAR, FULL OF MEN. MEN WHO ENJOY THE PANY OF OTHER MEN. HARRY STYL. THERE. AT THAT BAR. JT…WH ALL THOSE MEN, AND— SORRY, I LOST TIME THERE FOR A SEND. WHAT WERE WE TALKG ABOUT? [US WEEKLY]TMZ HAS A SCTILLATG 10-SEND VIO OF LDSAY LOHAN NOT BEG ALLOWED BACK TO A MANSN. Y, ’S TE. WHILE THERE HAVE LIKELY BEEN HUNDREDS OF TIM THAT LDSAY LOHAN HAS NOT BEEN ALLOWED BACK SI A MANSN, HERE IS THE ONE TIME WAS PUT ON VIO. TEN SENDS OF THRILLG FOOTAGE. THE REASON FOR THE VIO: THIS IS THE MANSN WHERE, OVER THE WEEKEND, YOUNG SOCIALE (IS THAT A GENRED WORD? IS THERE A MASCULE FORM OF “SOCIALE”? SOCIALISMO? NO I THK THAT MEANS SOMETHG ELSE ENTIRELY) BARRON HILTON WAS BEATEN ABOUT THE FACE AND NECK, SUPPOSEDLY AT THE BEHT OF ONE LDSGTON LOHAN, SETTG INSTAGRAM AND OTHER MEDIA ABUZZ WH MORS. THE PREVAILG THEORY IS THAT LOHAN ORRED THE H BEE HILTON HAD BEEN TALKG TRASH ABOUT HER, BUT WHO KNOWS THE REAL REASON, OR IF LOHAN WAS VOLVED AT ALL. WHAT WE DO KNOW FOR SURE IS THAT THERE ARE 10 SENDS OF VIO SHOWG LDSAY LOHAN, OR LDSAY LOHAN’S BACK ANYWAY, NOT BEG ALLOWED THROUGH THE GAT OF A MANSN ON STAR ISLAND MIAMI. THAT’S ALL WE KNOW FOR SURE. AND THAT BARRON HILTON WAS, ED, STCK ABOUT THE HEAD THIS WEEKEND, BY ASSAILANTS SPECTED BUT TECHNILLY UNKNOWN. BUT THAT’S JT WHAT HAPPENS ON STAR ISLAND, THE ROUGHT ZIP THE UNTRY. ONE DAY A HANDSOME YOUNG HOTEL HEIR IS BEG MANHANDLED AND BATTERED, THE NEXT A YOUNG ACTRS IS BEG NIED ENTRANCE TO A MYSTER, SECRET-FILLED MANSN. SEEMS LIKE A TERRIFYG PLACE. [TMZ]A NO DOUBT SCURRILO REPORT HAS BEEN FILED BY THE DAILY MAIL SUGGTG THAT JT BIEBER, CANADIAN SONGBIRD AND HEAD BOY OF AN ENTIRE GENERATN, HAS BEEN TO A FAN. CAN YOU IMAGE SUCH A THG? FROM DARLG JT BIEBER, WHO IS KD ENOUGH TO GRACE JANORS’ MOP BUCKETS WH HIS URE, WHO SPEEDS AROUND HIS CALABASAS NEIGHBORHOOD SO ALL THE TOWNSPEOPLE MAY SEE HIS LATT FLASHY TOMOBILE? THE SANE SUGGTN IS THAT YOUNG MASTER BIEBER WAS STG “POOLSI,” AS KIDS ARE WONT TO DO, WHILE STAYG PERTH, ATRALIA, AND WAS APPROACHED BY A FAN. SUPPOSEDLY THIS FAN WAS “GEO, WH LONG DARK HAIR AND A SIZE 14” AND JT ASKED HER IF SHE WAS HAWAIIAN. SHE REPLIED THAT SHE WAS NOT AND JT THEN, AGA THIS IS ALL SIMPLY RIDICULO HEARSAY, DISPARAGED THE YOUNG LADY’S WEIGHT, SAYG THAT SHE LOOKED LIKE A “BEACHED WHALE” AND THAT SHE SHOULD GO ON NBC’S WEIGHT-LOSS PROGRAM THE BIGGT LOSER. THE WOMAN REACTED AS ONE WOULD EXPECT, APOLOGIZG TO BIEBER FOR HER SLOVENLY APPEARANCE. NO, OF URSE NOT! SHE WAS MIGHTILY OFFEND, AS YOU ULD EXPECT ANYONE TO BE. HAD THIS HAPPENED, OF URSE. WE DON’T KNOW FOR SURE THAT THIS HAPPENED! AND REALLY DON’T SOUND LIKE THE JT BIEBER WE KNOW AND LOVE, DO ? HE ALWAYS SEEMS LIKE SUCH A SWEET, THOUGHTFUL BOY, SHG FLASHLIGHTS ON GIRLS AT BARS THAT HE WANTS BROUGHT OVER TO HIM, AND, AGA, KDLY PEEG A MAN’S BUCKET. I REALLY N’T IMAGE HIM EVER BEG TO A LADY LIKE THAT. FAME RPTS, BUT SURELY DON’T RPT THAT MUCH. RIGHT, JT? RIGHT?? [DAILY MAIL]A KENNEDY HAS BEE AN ACTOR. WELL, THIS KENNEDY WAS ALREADY AN ACTOR, BUT NOW SHE’S BEG A SER ACTOR. WE’RE TALKG ABOUT KATHLEEN “KICK” KENNEDY, THE 24-YEAR-OLD GRANDDGHTER OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY. SHE WILL BE APPEARG THE TLE ROLE OF A PRODUCTN OF ANTIGONE,, SOME OLD GREEK PLAY OR SOMETHG. WHO KNOWS. THE POT IS, SOUNDS FANCY AND RPECTABLE, WHICH IS THE ONLY KD OF ACTG THAT A KENNEDY SHOULD BE DOG. IN TTH, ACTG SEEMS AWFULLY BENEATH A SCENDANT OF CAMELOT, BUT, HEY, THE ARE THE TIM WE LIVE . USED TO BE THAT A POLIL SCN WOULD DO SOMETHG RPECTABLE WH THEIR LIV, LIKE MAKE SCEN AT VAR LUNCHEONS, OR SNOOZE A HYANNIS PORT HAMMOCK ALL DAY, BUT NOW? NOW ’S ACTG. EVERYONE WANTS TO BE AN ACTOR THE DAYS. KENNEDY HAS PREVLY APPEARED ON CURB YOUR ENTHIASM, GOSSIP GIRL, AND THE NEWSROOM, SO SHE’S MAKG A REAL REER FOR HERSELF HERE. AND NOW THIS! THIS CLASSY OLD PLAY OR WHATEVER IS. IT’S BEG CLASSILY ADVERTISED ON THE THEATER PANY'S WEBSE WH THE LE “KICK KENNEDY, RFK’S GRANDDGHTER, TO MAKE NEW YORK STAGE BUT.” WHICH IS WHAT ALL SER THEATER PANI DO. SO, BREAK A LEG, KICK! IF YOU WANT TO GO SEE HER STAGE BUT, ’S BEG PERFORMED AT A CHURCH ON 114TH STREET JANUARY. [PAGE SIX]GASP! THERE ARE BRAND-NEW SET PICS OM THE 50 SHAS OF GREY MOVIE! EEK, WHAT DO THEY SHOW?? WELL, THE ON WE’VE SEEN, CHRISTIAN AND ANASTASIA, PLAYED BY JAMIE DORNAN AND DAKOTA JOHNSON, ARE WEARG ATS AND STANDG OUTSI A BUILDG. OH. IN SOME OF THE PICS, DORNAN IS WEARG A BIG HEAVY BLACK AT OVER HIS SU JACKET AND JOHNSON IS WEARG A BIG HEAVY BLACK AT OVER A LTLE TRENCH AT KD OF A THG, AND OTHER PICS THEY ARE NOT WEARG THE BIG HEAVY BLACK ATS. PRUMABLY THAT’S WHEN THEY’RE FILMG THGS, NOT JT WAG AROUND. SO. YEAH. PRETTY HOT, RIGHT? SURE, I WAS KD OF EXPECTG TO SEE, I DUNNO, JOHNSON TIED TO A FLAMG BED WHILE DORNAN DANCED SCTIVELY WHILE WEARG TASSEL PASTI OR SOMETHG, BUT THIS… I GUS THIS WILL HAVE TO DO. JT TWO RANDOS STANDG THE STREET. HMM. I’M HAVG A LTLE TROUBLE GETTG EXCED FOR THIS MOVIE ALL OF A SUDN. SURE JAMIE DORNAN LOOKS LIKE ADONIS HIMSELF HAD RELATNS WH A BETIFUL SWAN AND A BABY WAS MA, BUT EH. UNTIL WE SEE SOME SET PICS OF CHRISTIAN AND ANASTASIA DOG ON A STEAMPUNK ROLLERASTER OR WHATEVER HAPPENS THAT CRAZY BOOK, THEN I’M JT NOT SOLD. EHER SHOW ME THE PICS OF CHRISTIAN AND ANASTASIA SEXILY WHIPPG EACH OTHER ATOP THE FAIRMONT PACIFIC RIM, AS I’M ASSUMG HAPPENS THE NOVEL, OR SHOW ME NO PHOTOS AT ALL. I THK THAT’S FAIR. [DAILY MAIL]MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYRICHARD LAWSON
• ANOTHER GAY BAR B THE DT — OIL CAN HARRY’S STUD CY ANNOUNC IT’S CLOSG
• OIL CAN HARRY’S STUD CY’S GAY COUNTRY BAR CLOS
• A TRANS MAN WALKS INTO A GAY BAR
• THE 12 BT GAY BARS IN NYC
• GAY DATG ATHENS

HARRY STYL HS GAY BAR HELL’S KCHEN WH KENDALL JENNER, NATURALLYBY RICHARD LAWSONDECEMBER 10, 2013SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVENO DOUBT SENDG LARRY STYLSON 'SHIPPERS TO FS OF SHRIEKG HYSTERIA—SO BASILLY A NORMAL MONDAY EVENG FOR THEM—NEWS, IF WE N LL THAT, BROKE YTERDAY AFTERNOON THAT HARRY STYL, THE MSY-HAIRED CHIEF HEARTTHROB OF THE TIGHT-PANTED QUTET ONE DIRECTN, HAS BEEN SPOTTED EQUENTG A NEW YORK CY GAY BAR. NOW NOW, NONE OF THIS IS NFIRMED THE MOST RIGORO JOURNALISTIC SENSE, BUT US WEEKLY SAID HAPPENED, AND WHY WOULD US WEEKLY EVER BE WRONG? BUT LOOK, NO ONE SHOULD GET ALL THAT EXCED ANYWAY, BEE HARRY BROUGHT A GIRL THERE. THE BAR WAS THE REASONABLY LOW-KEY, IF VAGUELY CHICHI, HELL’S KCHEN SPOT THERAPY (NOT EXACTLY THE COCK), AND THE GIRL WAS HARRY’S SUPPOSED GIRLIEND, KENDALL JENNER, A HALF-SISTER OF FUTURE QUEEN OF THE GALAXY KIM KARDASHIAN. APPARENTLY HARRY HAS BEEN TO THERAPY BEFORE. WHICH, HMM... MAYBE HE JT GO BEE ’S LIKE THE ONLY PLACE HE’S GUARANTEED NOT TO BE ACSTED BY SCREAMG YOUNG WOMEN? I MEAN, I’M SURE EVEN HE GETS SICK OF THAT AFTER A WHILE. SO HE GO TO A GAY BAR FULL OF ADULT GAY MEN AND, I DUNNO, BRGS HIS DATE THERE. IT MAK SOME STRANGE SENSE. WHATEVER THE REASON, THAT’S THE SCUTTLEBUTT. THAT HARRY STYL WENT THERE. TO THAT GAY BAR, FULL OF MEN. MEN WHO ENJOY THE PANY OF OTHER MEN. HARRY STYL. THERE. AT THAT BAR. JT…WH ALL THOSE MEN, AND— SORRY, I LOST TIME THERE FOR A SEND. WHAT WERE WE TALKG ABOUT? [US WEEKLY]TMZ HAS A SCTILLATG 10-SEND VIO OF LDSAY LOHAN NOT BEG ALLOWED BACK TO A MANSN. Y, ’S TE. WHILE THERE HAVE LIKELY BEEN HUNDREDS OF TIM THAT LDSAY LOHAN HAS NOT BEEN ALLOWED BACK SI A MANSN, HERE IS THE ONE TIME WAS PUT ON VIO. TEN SENDS OF THRILLG FOOTAGE. THE REASON FOR THE VIO: THIS IS THE MANSN WHERE, OVER THE WEEKEND, YOUNG SOCIALE (IS THAT A GENRED WORD? IS THERE A MASCULE FORM OF “SOCIALE”? SOCIALISMO? NO I THK THAT MEANS SOMETHG ELSE ENTIRELY) BARRON HILTON WAS BEATEN ABOUT THE FACE AND NECK, SUPPOSEDLY AT THE BEHT OF ONE LDSGTON LOHAN, SETTG INSTAGRAM AND OTHER MEDIA ABUZZ WH MORS. THE PREVAILG THEORY IS THAT LOHAN ORRED THE H BEE HILTON HAD BEEN TALKG TRASH ABOUT HER, BUT WHO KNOWS THE REAL REASON, OR IF LOHAN WAS VOLVED AT ALL. WHAT WE DO KNOW FOR SURE IS THAT THERE ARE 10 SENDS OF VIO SHOWG LDSAY LOHAN, OR LDSAY LOHAN’S BACK ANYWAY, NOT BEG ALLOWED THROUGH THE GAT OF A MANSN ON STAR ISLAND MIAMI. THAT’S ALL WE KNOW FOR SURE. AND THAT BARRON HILTON WAS, ED, STCK ABOUT THE HEAD THIS WEEKEND, BY ASSAILANTS SPECTED BUT TECHNILLY UNKNOWN. BUT THAT’S JT WHAT HAPPENS ON STAR ISLAND, THE ROUGHT ZIP THE UNTRY. ONE DAY A HANDSOME YOUNG HOTEL HEIR IS BEG MANHANDLED AND BATTERED, THE NEXT A YOUNG ACTRS IS BEG NIED ENTRANCE TO A MYSTER, SECRET-FILLED MANSN. SEEMS LIKE A TERRIFYG PLACE. [TMZ]A NO DOUBT SCURRILO REPORT HAS BEEN FILED BY THE DAILY MAIL SUGGTG THAT JT BIEBER, CANADIAN SONGBIRD AND HEAD BOY OF AN ENTIRE GENERATN, HAS BEEN TO A FAN. CAN YOU IMAGE SUCH A THG? FROM DARLG JT BIEBER, WHO IS KD ENOUGH TO GRACE JANORS’ MOP BUCKETS WH HIS URE, WHO SPEEDS AROUND HIS CALABASAS NEIGHBORHOOD SO ALL THE TOWNSPEOPLE MAY SEE HIS LATT FLASHY TOMOBILE? THE SANE SUGGTN IS THAT YOUNG MASTER BIEBER WAS STG “POOLSI,” AS KIDS ARE WONT TO DO, WHILE STAYG PERTH, ATRALIA, AND WAS APPROACHED BY A FAN. SUPPOSEDLY THIS FAN WAS “GEO, WH LONG DARK HAIR AND A SIZE 14” AND JT ASKED HER IF SHE WAS HAWAIIAN. SHE REPLIED THAT SHE WAS NOT AND JT THEN, AGA THIS IS ALL SIMPLY RIDICULO HEARSAY, DISPARAGED THE YOUNG LADY’S WEIGHT, SAYG THAT SHE LOOKED LIKE A “BEACHED WHALE” AND THAT SHE SHOULD GO ON NBC’S WEIGHT-LOSS PROGRAM THE BIGGT LOSER. THE WOMAN REACTED AS ONE WOULD EXPECT, APOLOGIZG TO BIEBER FOR HER SLOVENLY APPEARANCE. NO, OF URSE NOT! SHE WAS MIGHTILY OFFEND, AS YOU ULD EXPECT ANYONE TO BE. HAD THIS HAPPENED, OF URSE. WE DON’T KNOW FOR SURE THAT THIS HAPPENED! AND REALLY DON’T SOUND LIKE THE JT BIEBER WE KNOW AND LOVE, DO ? HE ALWAYS SEEMS LIKE SUCH A SWEET, THOUGHTFUL BOY, SHG FLASHLIGHTS ON GIRLS AT BARS THAT HE WANTS BROUGHT OVER TO HIM, AND, AGA, KDLY PEEG A MAN’S BUCKET. I REALLY N’T IMAGE HIM EVER BEG TO A LADY LIKE THAT. FAME RPTS, BUT SURELY DON’T RPT THAT MUCH. RIGHT, JT? RIGHT?? [DAILY MAIL]A KENNEDY HAS BEE AN ACTOR. WELL, THIS KENNEDY WAS ALREADY AN ACTOR, BUT NOW SHE’S BEG A SER ACTOR. WE’RE TALKG ABOUT KATHLEEN “KICK” KENNEDY, THE 24-YEAR-OLD GRANDDGHTER OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY. SHE WILL BE APPEARG THE TLE ROLE OF A PRODUCTN OF ANTIGONE,, SOME OLD GREEK PLAY OR SOMETHG. WHO KNOWS. THE POT IS, SOUNDS FANCY AND RPECTABLE, WHICH IS THE ONLY KD OF ACTG THAT A KENNEDY SHOULD BE DOG. IN TTH, ACTG SEEMS AWFULLY BENEATH A SCENDANT OF CAMELOT, BUT, HEY, THE ARE THE TIM WE LIVE . USED TO BE THAT A POLIL SCN WOULD DO SOMETHG RPECTABLE WH THEIR LIV, LIKE MAKE SCEN AT VAR LUNCHEONS, OR SNOOZE A HYANNIS PORT HAMMOCK ALL DAY, BUT NOW? NOW ’S ACTG. EVERYONE WANTS TO BE AN ACTOR THE DAYS. KENNEDY HAS PREVLY APPEARED ON CURB YOUR ENTHIASM, GOSSIP GIRL, AND THE NEWSROOM, SO SHE’S MAKG A REAL REER FOR HERSELF HERE. AND NOW THIS! THIS CLASSY OLD PLAY OR WHATEVER IS. IT’S BEG CLASSILY ADVERTISED ON THE THEATER PANY'S WEBSE WH THE LE “KICK KENNEDY, RFK’S GRANDDGHTER, TO MAKE NEW YORK STAGE BUT.” WHICH IS WHAT ALL SER THEATER PANI DO. SO, BREAK A LEG, KICK! IF YOU WANT TO GO SEE HER STAGE BUT, ’S BEG PERFORMED AT A CHURCH ON 114TH STREET JANUARY. [PAGE SIX]GASP! THERE ARE BRAND-NEW SET PICS OM THE 50 SHAS OF GREY MOVIE! EEK, WHAT DO THEY SHOW?? WELL, THE ON WE’VE SEEN, CHRISTIAN AND ANASTASIA, PLAYED BY JAMIE DORNAN AND DAKOTA JOHNSON, ARE WEARG ATS AND STANDG OUTSI A BUILDG. OH. IN SOME OF THE PICS, DORNAN IS WEARG A BIG HEAVY BLACK AT OVER HIS SU JACKET AND JOHNSON IS WEARG A BIG HEAVY BLACK AT OVER A LTLE TRENCH AT KD OF A THG, AND OTHER PICS THEY ARE NOT WEARG THE BIG HEAVY BLACK ATS. PRUMABLY THAT’S WHEN THEY’RE FILMG THGS, NOT JT WAG AROUND. SO. YEAH. PRETTY HOT, RIGHT? SURE, I WAS KD OF EXPECTG TO SEE, I DUNNO, JOHNSON TIED TO A FLAMG BED WHILE DORNAN DANCED SCTIVELY WHILE WEARG TASSEL PASTI OR SOMETHG, BUT THIS… I GUS THIS WILL HAVE TO DO. JT TWO RANDOS STANDG THE STREET. HMM. I’M HAVG A LTLE TROUBLE GETTG EXCED FOR THIS MOVIE ALL OF A SUDN. SURE JAMIE DORNAN LOOKS LIKE ADONIS HIMSELF HAD RELATNS WH A BETIFUL SWAN AND A BABY WAS MA, BUT EH. UNTIL WE SEE SOME SET PICS OF CHRISTIAN AND ANASTASIA DOG ON A STEAMPUNK ROLLERASTER OR WHATEVER HAPPENS THAT CRAZY BOOK, THEN I’M JT NOT SOLD. EHER SHOW ME THE PICS OF CHRISTIAN AND ANASTASIA SEXILY WHIPPG EACH OTHER ATOP THE FAIRMONT PACIFIC RIM, AS I’M ASSUMG HAPPENS THE NOVEL, OR SHOW ME NO PHOTOS AT ALL. I THK THAT’S FAIR. [DAILY MAIL]MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYRICHARD LAWSON

Sce he ma his name, Styl has publicly advoted for gay rights and many seem to thk that he is also gay.

No doubt sendg Larry Stylson 'shippers to fs of shriekg hysteria—so basilly a normal Monday eveng for them—news, if we n ll that, broke yterday afternoon that Harry Styl, the msy-haired chief heartthrob of the tight-panted qutet One Directn, has been spotted equentg a New York Cy gay bar.

So he go to a gay bar full of adult gay men and, I dunno, brgs his date there. To that gay bar, full of men.

ANOTHER GAY BAR B THE DT — OIL CAN HARRY’S STUD CY ANNOUNC IT’S CLOSG

“It’s obvly pretty unfathomable now to thk, ‘Oh, you uldn’t be gay. “It’s not like ‘This is a gay story about the guys beg gay. LOS ANGELES — The Los Angel Cultural Herage Commissn on Thursday remend that the Cy Council signate Oil Can Harry’s, which closed January, as a Historic-Cultural Monument for beg one of the olst gay bars the San Fernando Valley.

“The tablishment of Oil Can Harry’s occurred agast a backdrop of creased group ristance to homophobia wh the gay civil rights movement Los Angel, ” said Cy Planng Assistant Mickie Torr-Gil.

OIL CAN HARRY’S STUD CY’S GAY COUNTRY BAR CLOS

“Dpe ially beg met wh protts by s Stud Cy neighbors, Oil Can Harry’s quickly beme a safe haven for the gay muny. In the early days, before the gay liberatn movement got laws changed, was illegal for two men or two women to dance together. Police would often raid gay tablishments, so the bar had a peep hole to check patrons before openg the door.

Tomaso had a jovial personaly and a philosophy that everyone was wele, a sharp ntrast om some of the gay clubs on the other si of the Hollywood Hills that often had discrimatory polici agast blacks and Latos. In prentg the award LA Pri said, “His personal ditn n be seen through volvement wh the Greater Los Angel Chapter of the Goln State Gay Roo Associatn and Conttants, The Los Angel Leather Coaln, Homtead Hospice Hoe, and Tudays Child.

When the blarg dis and bchy drama of gay bars gets you down, 's time to take the show on the road to Harry's. Not all of the patrons are lonely, jet-settg bsman wh male-mol bety who want to have a lol gay man answer their French-accented qutns about the mystery of Denver's appeal while they eat their jalapeño-basil shrimp and sip their pot grig. If you enjoy people more than posg, Harry's puts the "style" back to the gay liftyle.

A TRANS MAN WALKS INTO A GAY BAR

Another gay bar the Los Angel area has announced that is closg permanently, jog a growg list of LGBTQ tablishments that have shut their doors for good the past ne months. Club Cobra, a Lato gay club North Hollywood that opened 2007, announced would not reopen bee the property owner was sellg the Bar, a sports bar Wt Hollywood, closed , an LGBTQ foced ffehop East Hollywood, closed Augt.

Openg and operatg gay bars, rtrants, and hotels Cathedral Cy was easier than Palms Sprgs.

THE 12 BT GAY BARS IN NYC

“That’s why so many of the gay bars and rtrants are Cathedral Cy. Like many other plac the untry, gay bars did experience police harassment.

In Febary 1983, Riversi County puti checked for bs licens at six gay bars but not the other two non-gay bars Cathedral Cy. Although there were as many as 50 gay bars Cathedral Cy over the years, they began to wane the 1990s as more gay bars and hotels opened Palm Sprgs.

GAY DATG ATHENS

Today, Cathedral Cy is seeg a rurgence of s gay past wh s LGBT Days (held last month for the sixth time) and more LGBT tablishments openg, as more and more LGBTQ+ dividuals ll Cathedral Cy home. Oil Can Harry's has had s last gay untry-wtern bar, which has provid le-dancg and a waterg hole for the LGBTQ+ muny Los Angel's Stud Cy neighborhood for 52 years, was sold December to a new owner who plans to nvert to a venue wh jazz mic, acrdg to owner John a Monday Facebook post, Fagan revealed that the landlord of the buildg, Monte Overstreet, had ma the sale. The gay journalists I worked alongsi, and the stori of the LGBTQ muny that we vered, helped me get there.

I've seen gay and trans stori told so tthfully films at aGLIFF. I've wnsed Jon-Erik Garcia, aka Gloris, pat sonic masterpiec at Barbarella's Tuezgayz, where bodi n yearn wh honty on the dance floor.