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- THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
- THE 10 BEST WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WT HOLLYWOOD
- GAY LA: BT GAY CLUB NIGHTS LOS ANGEL
- 52 ESSENTIAL GAY BARS AND NIGHTS AROUND LOS ANGEL
- WHERE TO HAVE A GAY OL' TIME LOS ANGEL: A NIGHTLIFE GUI
- THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
- MOSW GAY DANCE CLUBS & PARTI
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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.
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12 plac sorted by traveler favorGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissWhat travelers are saygHad to go and s beneath the portra of Elizabeth Taylor one of LA's classic gay bars. Tripadvisor performs checks on KMona1, 009 ntributnsWh all the other alleged gay bars failg this would have to be the bt and last Wt Hollywood Drks are good and at reasonable pric Wrten May 19, 2019This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. 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.
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It's more like a gay Cheers—everybody knows your name, om the bartenr to the door man to the DJ. 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. 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. 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.
Celebratg their 25th anniversary earlier this year, The Abbey remas a nstant force our llective gay bar experience. And The Abbey’s probably the most straight-iendly gay bar around (hello, straight bartenrs and bachelorette parti). Though some of more jad gay Angelenos will sff at the Abbey’s fx-fancy dér and normie vib, you n’t ny ’s got a lot gog for .
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Fita Canta looks like a gay Wahoo’s Fish Tas and serv food, while Revolver and Micky’s are more of dance clubs.
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Gold Coast is loted at 8228 Santa Moni Boulevard and Tnks is loted at 8809 Santa Moni SportsbarFor gays who prefer football to Gaga, Gym is a wele alternative. Gym also supports gay sports leagu, helpg to erase our memori of high school douchebags and replace them wh a way to bond and meet like-md gays that go beyond the bar. It’s the trendit and most eclectic gay bar the area, hostg a wi variety of nights, om craft night to bgo to edy nights.
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Btlg as may be on weekends, ’s a great neighborhood bar durg the week, when s solid jebox sps B-52’s, The Smhs and other alt-queer favor, and on Sundays, when Rudy Bl’s Mixtape daytime DJ event and the Rocksteady Lounge at night offer somethg other than the typil gay bar experience. It’s one of the only gay bars to ter to the leather and gay fetish crowds, but s sizable pat also make a great place to gather and—gasp—actually talk and be heard. ChiChi is a small gay bar Montebello that serv mostly Lato rints, playg a mix of dance mic and Lat pop and rock.
Its ntued existence is pecially important given the closure of Lato gay bars like Le Barco Silver Lake.
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The Broadway Corridor, which stretch along Broadway between Belmont Shore and the East Village area of Downtown Long Beach, has a smatterg of gay bars nveniently led up as a built- pub crawl, om the youthful Faln (1435 E Broadway) to the bearier Br (1744 E Broadway) and Me Shaft (1720 E Broadway) and girl-iendly Sweetwater Saloon (1201 E Broadway).
), which ters to unrserved gay ladi and Latos, offer Long Beachers the chance to shake all night long. What better way is there to fish off a big gay day at the beach than wh a stiff drk at Roosterfish? Artia BarThis longstandg spot (formerly known as The Dolph) is ltle known outsi of sleepy Redondo Beach, but ’s an oasis the otherwise gay sert that is the South Bay and s surroundg areas.
) is a great, leathery dive wh cheap drks, karaoke and TVs playg gay porn, a movie or HGTV, pendg on the night. And y, Pasana isn’t the Valley, but ’s worth notg that this rich, manicured suburb has s very own divey gay bar right off the Gold Le lled the Boulevard (3199 E Foothill Blvd. Schaben / Los Angel Tim) Half dance class, half dance party, Stud Country took s official form when the lsons moved to Plaza, a gay bar Wt Hollywood, a settg better sued for social dance.
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Sce the 1950s, gay bars like The Patch and Oceania (which reopened 1972 as the now-closed Club Rippl) offered safety and muny durg a time when anti-LGBTQ police raids were still mon. The current mayor, Robert Garcia, is an out and proud gay man and also the first Lato to hold office Long heart of Long Beach’s gayborhood is along Broadway, stretchg om Cherry to Alamos Avenu, but we enurage you to spread your wgs and venture to the cy’s other neighborhoods such as Downtown, Belmont Shore, and Retro Row, which is home to Long Beach’s LGBTQ Communy Center. The cy’s ditn to diversy is evint at Harvey Milk Promena Park and Equaly Plaza, the first park the untry to be named after the gay civil rights lear.