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• WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• IN SILVER LAKE, A GAY BIKER BAR FOR LA’S LEATHER DADDI
• TOP 10 BT GAY LEATHER BARS NEAR LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA
• A HISTORY OF L.A.’S GAY BAR SCENE, TOLD MATCHBOOKS
• TOP 10 BT GAY BEAR BAR NEAR LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• EAGLE LA IS THE LATT GAY BAR TO LNCH GOFUNDME FUNDRAISER EFFORT TO STAY OPEN
• 52 ESSENTIAL GAY BARS AND NIGHTS AROUND LOS ANGEL
• GAY BAR IN LOS ANGEL
• L.A. GAY BARS ARE BEG DEVASTATED BY THE PANMIC. HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP SAVE THEM
• BEYOND OFF SUNSET: A GUI TO GAY SILVER LAKE

WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE

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 BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

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.

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. For more than 35 years, Wt Hollywood has been a Mec for queer-owned bs, hog dozens of gay bars and clubs along Santa Moni Boulevard.

IN SILVER LAKE, A GAY BIKER BAR FOR LA’S LEATHER DADDI

Four popular gay bars have permanently closed Wt Hollywood sce March: Flamg Saddl, Gold Coast, Rage and Gym Bar.

And after a half- of employg gay men om Wt Hollywood, she is worried about what next. “They uld rent to anybody, don’t have to be a gay bar — uld be whatever they want, which would change the fabric of the muny, ” she says.

As he’s watched some of his neighborg bs go unr, Cooley not, “Gay bars and rtrants are not jt plac to eat or have a cktail.

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One of Wt Hollywood's most well-known gay nightclubs is on the market. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.

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.

A HISTORY OF L.A.’S GAY BAR SCENE, TOLD MATCHBOOKS

” 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.

Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.

In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.

TOP 10 BT GAY BEAR BAR NEAR LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA

” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. ” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.

Love, BambiSet your leather and uniform fetish ee at Silver Lake’s beloved gay bar. The East Hollywood leather bar on Santa Moni Boulevard is a historic lotn that has served the gay muny more than 50 years four different rnatns: The Shed, The Outst, Gntlet II, and Eagle LA, which opened 2006. Also, earlier this month, Oil Can Harry’s, the olst gay club Los Angel, announced they would not re-open after the panmic.

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He won two awards and received a nomatn for his reportg on the lol LGBTQ muny, cludg a two-part vtigatn that exposed anti-gay bullyg of lol high school stunts and the school districts' failure to implement state mandated protectns for LGBTQ stunts.

But before the party gets started, we're takg you a ltle farther east, to Silver Lake, which was once a center of gay life LA. Long-standg gay hot spot ters to a leather wearg crowd, wh cheap beer nights and DJs. Inic gay leather bar that was rebrand many years ago to be part of the Eagle anchise.

EAGLE LA IS THE LATT GAY BAR TO LNCH GOFUNDME FUNDRAISER EFFORT TO STAY OPEN

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-based queer artist who was a regular at a number of the spots worked briefly as a barback at Cuffs, a major gay hangout of the recent “was credibly dark and super cisey, ” Jony rells. “As Silver Lake — and the whole landspe of gay Hollywood and the east si — changed so much I always had this ia my head of turng the place back to Cuffs for one night, ” he says.

L.A. GAY BARS ARE BEG DEVASTATED BY THE PANMIC. HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP SAVE THEM

The early ’90s, there were more than a dozen [gay bars] on the east si. ”The closg of many east-si gay bars n be blamed, part, on gentrifitn’s effect on rents.

It also n be argued that the ongog expansn of jt what queerns n mean uld have ma a segment of gay bars, which thrived a sort of self-intified exclivy, obsolete. “I’m not one of them, ” Jony says, “but a lot of gay men my age and a generatn olr like to talk about the days of male-only spac and what that meant to them. ” Jony is pleased that anyone who intifi as male — trans men, for example — are now more wele at gay bars than they were the past.

Behd the Bar is seri of ocsnal terviews wh owners of gay bars Los Angel County, which, this age of Grdr and Scff, still rema the bt place for gay men to e together as a muny (and fd someone wh a real face to go home wh). In April of this year, the Eagle LA will be 12 years old, makg some ways the “Daddy bar” of gay L.

BEYOND OFF SUNSET: A GUI TO GAY SILVER LAKE

It was home to a gay bar known as the Shed om 1968 to 1972, then the Outst om 1972 to 1983, and then the Gntlet II om 1983 to 2005.

GayLifeLA reached out to Charlie Matula, a mcular bear of a guy whose shirtls hairy cht draws woofs om ctomers, to learn more. Anythg you’d remend to someone else thkg about openg a bar for gay men?