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Contents:

• PASANA’S ONLY GAY BAR IS BACK WH NO VER, KARAOKE AND DRAG
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE ONLY GAY BAR PASANA
•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• GAY PARTI & EVENTS

PASANA’S ONLY GAY BAR IS BACK WH NO VER, KARAOKE AND DRAG

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. 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.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

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. 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.

 CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

” 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.

THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE ONLY GAY BAR PASANA

“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.

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” (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.

” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist.

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On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. Pasana’s only gay bar is back wh no ver, karaoke and drag Drag queen Ni Cervant, stage name “Bia Bloom, ” is back onstage at the Boulevard, Pasana’s only gay bar.

After 15 months of beg closed bee of the ronavis outbreak and g close to gog out of bs, the Boulevard, the only gay bar Pasana, is open once aga, wh no social distancg and wh live entertament. There’s also those people that are celebratg jt beg back their gay bar. The two Marks refer to the Boulevard as the gay “Cheers” (referrg to the long-nng televisn seri) bee there are so many regular ctomers who know your name.

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

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. A top gay bar Pasana area that is iendly but a ltle small. The Boulevard is the iendlit gay bar wh the bt karaoke anywhere.

The Boulevard is a gay bar that is sure to fill your night wh lively entertament and a welg safe space for LGBTQIA members. — As bullets tore through a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, killg five people and woundg many more, one patron who had been partyg moments before shed to actn, grabbg a handgun om the spect, htg him wh and png him down until police arrived jt mut later.

An attacker opened fire a gay nightclub late Saturday night. Elijah Newb of Colorado Sprgs lays flowers near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, near police tape surroundg Club Q, a gay bar Colorado Sprgs, Colo., where a mass shootg took place late on Saturday.

Fred Ramirez, Try Ramirez, Tim Bat, and Malissa Ramirez grieve near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Sunday, Nov. Crystal and Ella Mondragon place flowers at a makhift memorial near a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs, Colo., Sunday, Nov. Thurman was si the gay nightclub when a gunman opened fire the night before, killg several people and jurg multiple others before he was subdued by “heroic” patrons.

Tyrice Kelley, center right, a performer at Club Q, is forted durg a service held at All Souls Unarian Church followg an overnight fatal shootg at the gay nightclub, Colorado Sprgs, Colo., on Sunday, Nov. The shootg rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.

Club Q is a gay and lbian nightclub that featur a drag show on Saturdays, acrdg to s webse. Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man to be elected a U.

“We ed to sneak the back door, ” he said, “bee those days you looked around to see who was watchg you go to a gay bar. “I wanted to work the gay muny, ” said Terradot, who moved to Los Angel om Hacienda Heights the late 1970s. “Beg able to work wh gay people and have a gay fay, meant everythg.

Over the years the Boulevard beme a safe haven for the gay muny the area and an alternative to the Wt Hollywood bar scene. Ctomers Mark Chou, left, and his partner Mark Lanza, right, flank owner Steve Terradot si the Boulevard gay bar Pasana.

Steve Terradot plac rabow flags their holrs above the ont entrance to his Pasana gay bar, the Boulevard.

“Thgs have changed for gay bars, and maybe some younger people don’t feel that need for them like my generatn did, but for a lot of people this is their safe place to e and not be judged, ” he said. Pasana Gay bars and clubs by distance. Pasana Gay Bars and Clubs om ClubFly.