Gay Village (Montreal) - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go

Contents:

• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• A GAY PRI WAKE-UP LL IN LOS ANGEL
• GAY VILLAGE
• QUéBEC - RENNTRE GRATUE GAY
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS COMBS-LA-VILLE

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS 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.

A GAY PRI WAKE-UP LL IN LOS ANGEL

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 VILLAGE

In 1969, wh the Stonewall Rebelln and the begng of the ant Gay Liberatn movement, the liv of gay and lbian people Los Angel and natnally were transformed.

Gay Liberatn Front which evolved to the Gay Communy Servic Center (now the LA LGBT Center), then as now, the largt such anizatn the world. (“Unrstandg LA Gay History”). It is a llective Gay Liberatn story of profound signifince and magnu.

A., as guts talkg about Gay Liberatn and GCSC on the “Current Events” show hosted by a young Lynn Ltman. The appearance of ant and articulate gay and lbian people on the show was an important breakthrough at the time—the first televisn show L. Which took the Gay Liberatn movement serly and had a substantive discsn about gay and lbian opprsn wh the ntext of systemic and stutnalized Hetero Supremacy.

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The appearance of gay and lbian people on the show was validatn for what GLF/GCSC was tryg to acplish at the time—the creatn for the first time of a visible, anized, polilly/culturally aware, and self-acceptg gay muny where we llectively assumed rponsibily for each other. Wh which the pneerg Gay Liberatn movement wanted to engage a forward-movg, proactive dialogue.

Two rare vios om that early, post-Stonewall, gay social revolutn are found below the form of the 1971 KCET “Current Events” show tled “The Gay Way. In the first vio, four GLF/GCSC gay men talked about Gay Liberatn and the newly-found muny center. Dick Nash, a Unarian mister, Jon Platania, a Gay Liberatnist, and me, a GLF anizer and foundg Executive Director of GCSC.

Heard gay and lbian people talkg about their opprsn and humanizatn, and how gay people were seizg their own liberatn wh the assistance of our straight alli. “The Gay Way” – KCET Los Angel (1971) – Part I, Gay Men.

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“The Gay Way” – KCET Los Angel (1971) – Part II, Lbian Women.

That Gay Liberatn generatn waged a ceasels, ant stggle for their liberatn om the domant Hetero Supremacy culture, creatg a legacy which clus the eedom LGBTQ people enjoy today.

REMEMBER: As you attend PRIDE events June, events created to celebrate the Stonewall Rebelln and the Gay Liberatn movement, you will hear nothg or next to nothg about this social revolutn which had ternatnal ramifitns. The memoratn of a gay people’s social revolutn that has transformed the liv of gay and lbian people has been opportunistilly tossed to a WeHo trash n. The qutns I have to polely ask gay people L.