As rtrictns thaw, Long Beach’s gay bars are g back after a dark year

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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. 2(55)•The Silver Fox is a popular gay nightclub that featur karaoke and a variety of mic vios.

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Its basilly a gay dive bar. 2(131)•Gay night clubDance clubKaraoke barExecutive Sue is the biggt LGBTQ nightclub Long Beach and has a chic lounge area, karaoke, pool and weekly drag shows.

3(226)•cheapBarGay night clubNight clubThe Br is a relaxed pennt LGBTQ bar wh a shad and heated pat, pool table, darts and theme nights. Insi there are vio screens playg mic and a pool 1 of 5A bar the (I affectnately ll) "Gayborhood" that happily re-open after the panmic. 4(183)•Cocktails & draft beer are served at this popular gay bar wh karaoke nights & outdoor 1 of 3Fantastic bar wh diverse patrons.

4(196)•Long-nng, gay-iendly bar offerg pool tabl & hostg karaoke nights on Fridays & Saturdays. 4(59)•Gay barNightlifeBars & ClubsHappeng gay hangout offerg a pool table, TVs & daily drk specials, pl an outdoor 1 of 3I e to this place on Wednday nights for Karaoke.

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You don't have to be gay to enjoy this a good Vibe,, till end of the night.. 5(71)•Mentned on Bar & grillBarGay barRtrantSli 1 of 3Awome thank you!

9(50)•affordableGay barBarNight clubLate-night, high-energy gay bar wh a pat featurg cktails, live entertament & DJ 1 of 3Rippl was a bar I equented all the time. Rippl was one of my first gay bar experienc.

A brisk Monday eveng at the Mhaft, a 43-year-old gay bar suated on the Broadway Corridor, the slow bs hours of the tablishment belie the boistero jubilatn si—if only celebrated by five men lgh and nverse as they sip beer and vodka cranberry cktails.

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Though the COVID-19 panmic put immense stra on muni across the board, for the Long Beach gay muny, 2020 was pecially isolatg. “I feel like we’ve lost a lot of nnectn, and this year has ma worse, ” said 46-year-old Ryan Schroer, who liv near the rtrictns on public gathergs pecially strgent on enclosed spac like bars, many of the cy’s gay bars were closed through the bulk of 2020 and to this year. Many owners feared for the survival of their bs, not jt for their own livelihoods, but for the sake of the gay muny, which has historilly found sanctuary and muny si their tablishments.

Though was already a blow for the gay muny to fo last year’s celebratn, this year is jt as moralizg.

“It’s fely put a stra on me jt beg a gay person and not beg able to partake, ” Romero said.

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Though Flor said he equents other bars the cy, gay bars like the Mhaft feel like home.

“There are certa tim when I jt want to be around gay people, ” he said. “Whenever I walk to a gay bar, yeah, I want to have a good time and be silly, but when I walk to the doors, I’m walkg on the shoulrs of people who have paved the way for all of to feel ee to e to a [gay] bar.

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THE 20 BT GAY BARS LONG BEACH