A New Neighborhood Gay Bar Fally Opens Wt Hollywood - WEHO TIMES Wt Hollywood News, Nightlife and Events

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• FUBAR OWNER ANNOUNC NEW GAY BAR IS COMG TO WEHO
• A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD GAY BAR FALLY OPENS WT HOLLYWOOD
• NEW WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR, THE OR BAR, IS HIRG AND OPENG SOON
• WT HOLLYWOOD ADDS NEW GAY BAR WH OR BAR WEHO OPENG THIS WEEK
• IN ‘GAY BAR,’ TIME-HOPPG SNAPSHOTS OF QUEER NIGHTLIFE
• GAY TAMPA
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• GAY MANCHTER

FUBAR OWNER ANNOUNC NEW GAY BAR IS COMG TO WEHO

However, Fubar’s owner Jay Krymis tells WEHO TIMES he is openg a new gay bar at the former home of the popular sports bar, which moved to a new lotn a few blocks wt on Santa Moni Boulevard.

He says the new bar is gog to be “gay, gay, gay!

A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD GAY BAR FALLY OPENS WT HOLLYWOOD

”His ments are rponse to reactns after Krymis posted a vio last Friday where he spoke of a new gay bar openg at the empty space at 8737 Santa Moni Boulevard, by Hanck Avenue. New gay bar g soon – Photo by Fernie Rojo for WEHO TIMES“This is our new bar Wt Hollywood jt a uple of blocks down the road om Fubar, ” he said a Facebook live vio.

NEW WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR, THE OR BAR, IS HIRG AND OPENG SOON

”Communy members thought Krymis was movg Fubar to this new space, but the new gay bar, which is yet to be named, will be a whole different ncept he says.

It’s gog to be a chill gay, gay, gay bar.

He plans to plete the new gay bar and then circle back to Fubar. Check out pics of the new neighborhood gay bar that has FINALLY opened the Cy of Wt Hollywood at 8737 Santa Moni Boulevard. New neighborhood gay bar – Photo by Dan Myglot for WEHO TIMES New neighborhood gay bar Wt Hollywood – WEHO TIMESOwner Jay Krymis, who also owns the space formerly known as Fubar, loted at 7994 Santa Moni Boulevard, hoped to have his brand-new neighborhood gay bar open on Halloween weekend, but the bs venture has been plagued wh lays that didn’t allow them to sh on that by weekend on the Rabow officially announced the closg of FUBAR Weho on October 10th via an Instagram Story.

WT HOLLYWOOD ADDS NEW GAY BAR WH OR BAR WEHO OPENG THIS WEEK

Liquor license number 638092 pertag to 8737 Santa Moni Boulevard still holds the bs name as Dolly She, as of the publishg of this piece, which Krymis says is not the real name he settled thg is for certa about the new neighborhood bar Wt Hollywood: The owner says the bar will be “gay, gay, gay. The Or Bar​ – a new up-and-g Wt Hollywood gay bar openg at the former Gold Coast Bar​ space, at 8228 Santa Moni Blvd., is currently hirg and hopg to open soon as early as September. It beme the fourth gay bar to close on Santa Moni Boulevard durg the panmic.

IN ‘GAY BAR,’ TIME-HOPPG SNAPSHOTS OF QUEER NIGHTLIFE

“We don’t want gay bars to bee obsolete, ” Kotspoulos told Variety last year. The Cy of Wt Hollywood wel a new gay bar.

Fashn Police -host Gee Kotspoulos teamed up wh Circ of Books owner Rob Novger and Fire Hot Yoga founr Schtag, to open the new gay bar that lerally means “Gold” French–a nod to the beloved Gold Coast space which closed for good September 2020 after servg the muny for 39 years.

GAY TAMPA

It is beg billed as a gay bar by the owners who have acknowledged the history of the space and are not shyg away om the cisy reputatn of the famo Vasele Alley loted their backyard. “We don’t want gay bars to bee obsolete, ” Kotspoulos told Variety when he announced his latt enavor last year.

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 GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

” 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. ” 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.

GAY MANCHTER

” 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.

If you felt a twge of boredom (bon if you thrill to disheveled, elive, gamy), then I have a book for Atherton L’s “Gay Bar” is a rtls and telligent cultural history of queer nightlife.