A look back at Hollywood’s unrground gay club culture of the 1970s - Curbed LA

Contents:

• SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD GAY BAR FALLY OPENS WT HOLLYWOOD
• A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S

SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI

Gay Bars Near Santa Moni.

Havg proudly served the Abbot Kney area for nearly 40 years, this origal gay bar lls self a safe haven for those the LGBTQ+ muny. The Bayou is a popular gay bar on Santa Moni Blvd. Moni’s Gay and Lbian Outreach Mistry.

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

The hotel is associated wh World Rabow Hotels, a travel directory that curat hotels based on World Rabow Hotels’ “acceptance creria, ” which clus: hotel’s lotn, characteristics, knowledge of lol gay scene, current volvement wh the LGBTQ+ muny and pliance wh non-discrimatn polici and same sex benefs to their staff. 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.

 CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

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. 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.

There aren't many rourc for gay travelers foced specifilly on Santa Moni, Venice, and ast; however, this is part of metro Los Angel, which has is one of the world's centers of GLBT culture. There are numero gay newspapers and publitns servg the general area, and Wt Hollywood is the hub of the regn's gay scene.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

Long Beach Gay also has a gay culture on that part of the ast. Other gay L. Gay & Lbian Center and the popular gay newspapers Frontiers and Lbian News.

Today, you'd never know that this primarily straight, whe, and profsnal area was an early bastn of gay society, a land of bathho, cisg, and nu sunbathg. Jt off the beach a huge gay bar, the Tropil Village, drew everybody om navy men to closeted celebri to rint thors Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spenr.

A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD GAY BAR FALLY OPENS WT HOLLYWOOD

Gay rints are still most fely a prence Santa Moni, but wh nowhere near the prence they have Wt Hollywood, Silver Lake, and some other parts of Los Angel. And wh the flux recent years of stellar rtrants and sign-driven hotels, Santa Moni has steadily bee a favore gay getaway for upl, beachgoers, and those wantg a more relaxed Los Angel vatn.

A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S

's East Village or Haight-Ashbury by the sea—ed, was a haven of unter-culture and members of the Beat Generatn durg the '50s and '60s, as well as avant-gar artists and graffi experts, like the late gay artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, the '80s. Along the ast near the Santa Moni–Pacific Palisas town le, you'll fd the most famo gay beach greater Los Angel, loted at the nearly 2-e-long Will Rogers State Beach (15900 Pacific Coast Hwy., at Teml Canyon Road). A ftive atmosphere prevails on most sunny days, pecially around the gay sectn, known affectnately as "Gger Rogers Beach.

Below here, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, and Redondo Beach are three middle-class suburbs—there is one gay bar the area, the Dolph, Redondo Beach. Long Beach has a lively gay nightlife scene.

The cy has one of the largt gay muni California, somethg that probably has a great al to do wh the town's strong navy history durg World War II.