Venice Beach and Santa Moni Gay Gui

Contents:

• LOS ANGEL GAY RTRANTS
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• AN O TO L.A.’S GAY RTRANTS, WHERE A MUNY N FD A HOME
• SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI
• FOUR GAY-FRIENDLY HOTELS LOS ANGEL
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

LOS ANGEL GAY RTRANTS

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.

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The origal Downtown gay bar, Jalis is a dive bar that ters to the Latx and Mexin LGBTQ muny. 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.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

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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AN O TO L.A.’S GAY RTRANTS, WHERE A MUNY N FD A HOME

Whether you're gluten-ee, eat anic, crave meat or want somethg fatteng and lic, the var gay rtrants Los Angel will ter to your every foodie Hollywood’s bt rtrants have a morn feel and are great people-watchg spots, equent wh double tak. While the cy has many gay-specific rtrants on Santa Moni Boulevard, pretty much all rtrants are outrageoly never know who you will see Wt Hollywood! Wh the mpy vibe straight out of a John Waters so close to the ocean, one of the top gay rtrants Los Angel for seafood is Connie & Ted's.

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. (and y, spottg celebri like gay Olympic diver Tom Daley and his Osr-wng hband, Dt Lance Black). 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.

Along wh Santa Moni Boulevard’s Revolver, Mother Lo, and Rage, Micky’s is a cherished, endurg Wt Hollywood gay nightlife stutn.

SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI

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. 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. There’s some irony to the name, sce this licly divey, neighborhood gay bar is actually DTLA’s olst.

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.

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FOUR GAY-FRIENDLY HOTELS LOS ANGEL

It’s a gay bar, ’s a straight bar, ’s a trans bar, ’s a drag bar, ’s a karaoke bar, ’s a bar you n go to no matter who you are and feel fortable. The gay-owned, gay-managed bistro nverted s loadg area to an attractive pat space and stalled 10, 000 Christmas lights that hang above ctomers as they de. “As a fay-owned, gay-owned bs, we always want to keep that neighborhood inty, ” Shaw said.

The bar origally opened as a gay bar 1979 but is now open to everyone.

The revolters, who clud transgenr people, gay men and “htlers” — acrdg to John Rechy, one of the men the police attempted to arrt, who tailed the event his 1963 novel “Cy of Night” — ntued their stand, the motn blockg off that strip of the street through the night and to the next revolt is wily regard as the first rerd event where people the LGBTQ muny took a stand agast police btaly.

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It laid the foundatn for later uprisgs at the Black Cat Tavern Silver Lake (then Endale), Compton’s Cafeteria San Francis’s Tenrlo neighborhood, and then, most notorly, at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy, all of which occurred wh the ensug sence the gay rights movement, one uld argue, started not a bar, wh beer bottl crashg unr the glow of neon, but a ty rtrant servg doughnuts 60 years ago this month.

(Silvia Raza / For The Tim) Gay people have always gathered bars or secret clubs, sacrosanct for their abily to protect om outsi evils. Every gay person who mov to a new cy first seeks out the bars, to better unrstand the new environment.

His workers troduced him to gay clubs such as RoosterFish, Rippl and Boom Boom Room, but the feelg of home “really cemented when I went to the gay rtrants. Rtrants, found across the untry, are what we the muny ll “gay rtrants”: spots that are eher owned by, or ter to, a largely gay — most often cis male — clientele (although no one would get turned away).