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- THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
- THE ABBEY, INIC WT HOLLYWOOD GAY NIGHTCLUB, IS UP FOR SALE
- GOODBYE BIG GAY STARBUCKS WT HOLLYWOOD – THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORI
- WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
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(Valerie Man / AFP/Getty Imag) The Abbey, one of Wt Hollywood’s most proment gay nightclubs, is up for listg lls the property, at 686 Robertson Blvd., “a generatnal purchase opportuny to acquire one of the world’s most inic nightclubs and rtrants. “His visn was plete alignment wh the cy to revigorate historic Boystown and create a world-renowned gay tablishment, ” said John Duran, who sat on the Wt Hollywood Cy Council om 2001 until 2020. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.
GOODBYE BIG GAY STARBUCKS WT HOLLYWOOD – THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORI
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In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.
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” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.
He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year.