Venice Beach and Santa Moni Gay Gui

Contents:

• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• GGER ROGERS BEACH, LA’S GAY BEACH, TO BE REGNIZED
• AT LA’S UNOFFICIAL GAY BEACH, VANDALS DEFACED LIFEGUARD TOWERS PATED IN PROGRS PRI COLORS
• THE RISE AND FALL OF LAGUNA BEACH, A GAY CALIFORNIA HOTSPOT
• LOS ANGEL GAY SNAS
• SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI
• THE BT GAY BEACH THE USA
• DISVER THE 10 BT GAY BEACH NORTH AMERI (AND WHERE TO STAY)
• GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

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GGER ROGERS BEACH, LA’S GAY BEACH, TO BE REGNIZED

18, on “Gger Rogers Beach, ” Los Angel’ unofficial gay beach and a long-time sandy sanctuary for the LGBTQ+ muny, will be pated the lors of the Progrs Pri Flag next month after the Los Angel County Board of Supervisors approved the ia. Two lifeguard towers on “Gger Rogers Beach, ” Los Angel’ unofficial gay beach and a long-time sandy sanctuary for the LGBTQ+ muny, will be pated the lors of the Progrs Pri Flag next month after the Los Angel County Board of Supervisors approved the ia.

He won two awards and received a nomatn for his reportg on the lol LGBTQ muny, cludg a two-part vtigatn that exposed anti-gay bullyg of lol high school stunts and the school districts' failure to implement state mandated protectns for LGBTQ stunts. 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. 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.

AT LA’S UNOFFICIAL GAY BEACH, VANDALS DEFACED LIFEGUARD TOWERS PATED IN PROGRS PRI COLORS

Petersburg who left Rsia after his parents threatened to sue his therapist who backed him receivg hormone therapy; and Ivan, 18, who is gay, half Rsian and half Ukraian, and “didn’t want to kill people. “My parents are very nservative and they don’t believe gay people should exist, ” said Max, who didn’t disclose his last name for fear of retaliatn agast his parents who live St. Although is not illegal to be an LGBTQ+ person Rsia, a ago the Kreml passed a so-lled “gay propaganda law” banng the distributn of rmatn about gay relatnships among mors.

THE RISE AND FALL OF LAGUNA BEACH, A GAY CALIFORNIA HOTSPOT

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. 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.

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.

LOS ANGEL GAY SNAS

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. 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.

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. If you plan to do your gaytn Wt Hollywood, Los Angel, you’ll be pleased to know this gay beach is roughly a 30-mute drive away, meang you n tan by day and party by night. Why Gger Rogers Beach mattersThis strip of beach, named after the Goln Age actrs and gay in Gger Rogers, offers a place of safety and belongg the LGBTQ+ s history outsi of the muny is ltle-known.

SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI

A., historians Lillian Farman and Stuart Timmons wrote about how the beach was symbolic to gay people, bee “reprented the very edge of the ntent, far away om ‘back home. I was 18, I was terrified, and I wanted to go to my first gay club, the Boom Boom Room Laguna Beach, California, a seasi town that, before s rise to promence via an MTV realy seri and Bravo’s gural Real Hoewiv seri, was known as a queer-iendly enclave Orange County.

I knew that, only two years before, a football player at a nearby high school had nearly beaten a gay man to ath on this beach, one of several lol hate crim aimed at gay men.

THE BT GAY BEACH THE USA

Queer enclav New York Cy, like Park Slope (formerly a lbian hub) or the Wt Village (now more associated wh celebri, fance bros, and others who n afford s risg real tate pric), or Silver Lake Los Angel, aren’t as gay as they were the ’80s and ’90s. After the cy resigned the area along Ma Beach to turn to a public promena, the gay tablishments—and crowd—moved south to a two-block stretch along PCH between Callpe and Crs streets.

DISVER THE 10 BT GAY BEACH NORTH AMERI (AND WHERE TO STAY)

Gay-owned and gay-iendly jots like Flr Lys (now lled Ma Street Bar and Cabaret), the Boom Boom Room (a multiered nightclub wh saltwater fishtanks and go-go boys), and the Ltle Shrimp (a piano bar-slash-rtrant wh a lounge sger) opened.

Durg the height of s populary among the LGBTQ crowd, the cy elected one of the untry’s first openly gay elected officials, Bob Gentry, a former associate an of stunts at Universy of California at Irve, who served as mayor and uncilman om 1982 to 1996. He also bore wns to the height of the AIDS/HIV crisis, which h Laguna Beach at a per pa rate parable to San Francis or Manhattan and wiped out much of the gay male populatn—cludg Gentry’s longtime partner, Gary Burdick, 1989.

In a move that upset both nservativ and some of the more fearful sectns of the gay muny, Gentry, never one to mce words or hi om the tth, went public wh his partner’s ath.

GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020

In addn to a nservative visors bure and cy uncil tryg to quash the cy’s gay reputatn, sert ci like Palm Sprgs and Cathedral Cy did somethg Laguna Beach wouldn’t do: They openly urted LGBTQ rints.

“At one Southern California gay pri para the mid-’80s, my r was directly behd a r om Cathedral Cy, which was filled wh heterosexual male and female cy uncil people, ” Gentry rells.