A Gui to Gay Los Angel, 1965 | Lost LA | Food & Disvery | KCET

Contents:

• LOS ANGEL GAY RTRANTS
• AN O TO L.A.’S GAY RTRANTS, WHERE A MUNY N FD A HOME
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR
• SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI
• LA’S MOST FAMO GAY BAR HAS A 30-YEAR-OLD BAKERY HIDN INSI
• A GUI TO GAY LOS ANGEL, 1965
• GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL
• ‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN

LOS ANGEL GAY RTRANTS

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

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.

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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. 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.

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. 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). ” (Silvia Raza / For The Tim) Some “gay rtrants” have terrs cked out rabow flags, amed pics of Bea Arthur as her “Goln Girls” character Dorothy Zbornak and posters of exuberant drag queens advertisg the next themed bnch. Some look like your n-of-the-l sual-dg rtrant, but the owners employ mostly gay wastaff who know how to liver the right amount of sass and a se to get you to orr that cnamon bun that everyone at the table says they won’t eat but then vours wh 20 sends.

STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

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SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI

”But all those plac he so fondly remembers are long closed, as are Harvt, Orb’s and several others listed an article, headled “Rtrants That Roll Out the Wele Mat for Gay Ders, ” that ran this newspaper 27 years ago. The panmic h the untry’s urban gay rtrants pecially hard, said Jt Nelson, the print of the Natnal LGBT Chamber of Commerce. MeMe’s Der, a popular queer rtrant Brooklyn, permanently closed November, cg shutdown measur and a lack of ernment rtrants, like gay bars, are also facg cris of inty and purpose a time that is many ways more welg than the past, when gay people sought out gay rtrants bee they offered safety and acceptance that uldn’t be found elsewhere.

LA’S MOST FAMO GAY BAR HAS A 30-YEAR-OLD BAKERY HIDN INSI

Gay men equented plac like Orphan Andy’s, a mpy der om the same that’s still bs the Castro neighborhood of San Francis. Atlanta had Waterworks, which a 1992 newsletter for the group Black and Whe Men Together lled the cy’s “only Black-owned gay rtrant.

“Many of the more privileged young queer people have grown up wh cln, so they don’t feel the need to be a place where you’re sheltered om heterosexism, ” said Julie Podmore, an urban geographer at Conrdia Universy may be the se New York Cy, where gay rtrants are gog the way of dosrs (if not yet extct — Elmo and other spots are still keepg their gay fan base fed) elsewhere the untry, many gay rtrants are thrivg — as treasured lol bs, facto muny centers, refug om ntug anti-queer vlence and potential paths forward for a rtrant dtry a recent Saturday night the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washgton, Annie’s Paramount Steak Hoe was by, and was gay. That seed was planted by her great-nt Annie was beyond supportive of the gay muny and beme, for many of the rtrant’s racially diverse ders, a mother figure before her ath 2013. Katas said, “people are g back wh tears their ey” bee they “missed beg a space where they’re not the only gay people.

”For Steve Herman, 79, who has eaten at Annie’s sce 1976, that reason is the fact that Dupont Circle isn’t as gay as once was.

A GUI TO GAY LOS ANGEL, 1965

”The historian Gee Chncey trac gay eatg plac New York Cy back to the cheap urban dg halls that tered to unmarried workers the late 19th century. In the 1920s and ’30s, the police often raid feterias like Horn & Hardart, where gay men gathered to “ridicule the domant culture that ridiculed them, and nstct an alternative culture, ” as Mr. People phed back agast a police roundup by g ffee and doughnuts as the 1980s, Florent was a refuge for gay New Yorkers durg the worst years of AIDS.

When straight upl brg children to the unpretent brick buildg for chicken tenrs on weekends, the place feels more like an Applebee’s than the almost 40, Naps, as regulars ll , is the olst gay bar and rtrant Green Bay, acrdg to Arnold Penrgast, 61, who has owned wh his hband, Stacy Dotel, 56, sce 2012.

Lols gather for chary drag shows and to watch Packers gam over baskets of fat and crispy beer-battered d bee ’s one of the few gay optns town.

GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL

”“If the panmic tght anythg, ’s that nnectg digally is not enough, ” particularly for workg-class gay people, he said, like those at Naps.

Moudi Sbey found the Mederranean rtrant 2017 wh Derek Kchen, then his hband, who was elected to the Utah State Senate a year Sbey, 33, prefers to ll Laziz a queer, not gay, rtrant to signal “that we are clive love. 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. 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.

‘THE ARE OUR HOM’: LA GAY BARS FIGHT TO STAY AFLOAT AFTER YEAR OF SHUTDOWN

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. 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.