Ventura Boulevard San Fernando Valley has a secret history of gay bars

Contents:

• SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SAN FERNANDO VALLEY
• VENTURA BOULEVARD SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS
• THE VALLEY MIGHT BE L.A.'S MOST GREGAR "GAYBORHOOD" OF ALL
• A GUI TO GAY LOS ANGEL, 1965
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SAN FERNANDO VALLEY

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS

7 thgs you didn’t know about the historic gay club Oil Can Harry’s.

“ ‘Over the hill’ was a mon viewpot of Valley gays, ” Adks says an terview.

Up Stairs Lounge fire largt mass murr of gay people US history. Here, Adks shar his gay memori about eight spac that were loted on Venture Boulevard. Apache Terrory, also know as The Apache, was a popular gay bar Stud Cy on Ventura Boulevard.

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

Later, the Ventura Boulevard lotn beme another gay bar, Everybody’s. “Keh’s Touch of Class was a gay rtrant wh a cktail lounge and rotatg mil performers like Wayne Moore and Brenda Silas Moore. Wayne was a sger-songwrer who played all the gay piano bars, and Brenda was his ex-wife and baret performer, ” Adks says.

Type: Gay Bar. And lbians around the untry, gathered bars, church and livg rooms, will celebrate the but of the first gay lead character on work when 48-year-old Jody Young me out eight years ago, there was no TV show, no parti.

As dramatilly as her life changed, she said, much of stayed the same: the job, the errands, the neighbors, the hoe Northridge where she’s lived for 22 never occurred to her to move to a so-lled gay area like Wt Hollywood.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SAN FERNANDO VALLEY

“Beg gay don’t change that, ” she said. Ined, a unty hate crim report released last week showed only 17 such cints agast homosexuals North Hollywood, pared to 61 Hollywood and 45 Wt Miller, a gay real tate agent who has sold ho to and for lbians all over the Valley, said those clients have been jt like everyone else buyg ho here: primarily profsnal, upwardly mobile, baby-boomer upl. ”The big ncern at gay bars was police raids, relled Edie Brown, 61, who started equentg that scene while still a stunt at San Fernando High School.

“It was suburbia, ” said Fleischman, who is on the board of directors for the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Archiv. I liked here, but I wonred what was gog to be like to be gay here.

Still, there are sttered neighborhoods to which, for whatever reason, lbians tate agent Kathy Barbier, for example, sold three hom to lbians one Van Nuys neighborhood where several other gay women already than a e away, Sheila O’Kane manag an apartment buildg where lbians live 15 of the 20 uns. Long Beach, a cy wh one-third the populatn of the Valley, had men were the targets of the vast majory--around 75%--of all anti-gay hate crim. That’s bee the men tend to be more noticeable, said Lisa Phillips, the LAPD’s field liaison to the gay and lbian is a chance that the publicy generated by the “Ellen” show uld spark hostili toward lbians, said Sharen Shaw Johnson, chief advote for the Los Angel Gay & Lbian Center’s anti-vlence project.

VENTURA BOULEVARD SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS

Hate crim agast gays last year peaked at tim of greater media verage: May, when the U. Supreme Court overturned Colorado’s Amendment 2, which would have barred the cln of gays anti-discrimatn laws; and June, when most gay pri paras and celebratns were held. “Natnally and Los Angel for years, we’ve seen a very direct rrelatn between gay and lbian visibily and attacks, ” Johnson said.

THE VALLEY MIGHT BE L.A.'S MOST GREGAR "GAYBORHOOD" OF ALL

The Valley is the place to settle down and live a more tranquil Newman, 47, an attorney who is lol print of the Log Cab Club, a gay Republin group, said she’ll go out to Wt Hollywood, but prefers g home to Enco. “I’ve been the gay muny sce I was a kid. 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. 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.

A GUI TO GAY LOS ANGEL, 1965

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.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SAN FERNANDO VALLEY

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. From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis.

A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! LOS ANGELES — Oil Can Harry’s, which closed last year, was signated a Historic-Cultural Monument by the Los Angel Cy Council Wednday for beg one of the olst gay bars the San Fernando Valley.

“The tablishment of Oil Can Harry’s occurred agast a backdrop of creased group ristance to homophobia wh the gay civil rights movement Los Angel, ” Cy Planng Assistant Mickie Torr-Gil told the Cultural Herage Commissn on Oct.