Gold Coast, the Qutsential Queer Dive Bar, Was the “Gay Cheers” of Wt Hollywood | Them

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• GOLD COAST, THE QUTSENTIAL QUEER DIVE BAR, WAS THE “GAY CHEERS” OF WT HOLLYWOOD
• JULI’, THE GAY-ELR DIVE BAR OF THE VILLAGE, GETS LANDMARKED
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• THIS LEGENDARY CHIGO GAY DIVE BAR JT CLOSED AFTER 40 YEARS
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• GOLD COAST, WEHO’S INIC ‘DIVE BAR,’ IS THE FOURTH GAY BAR TO CLOSE ON SANTA MONI BLVD.
• THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
• NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

GOLD COAST, THE QUTSENTIAL QUEER DIVE BAR, WAS THE “GAY CHEERS” OF WT HOLLYWOOD

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.

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JULI’, THE GAY-ELR DIVE BAR OF THE VILLAGE, GETS LANDMARKED

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.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

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.

THIS LEGENDARY CHIGO GAY DIVE BAR JT CLOSED AFTER 40 YEARS

It’s the perfect place for gay men to meet on the Eastsi. “That's gay bar, ” the tular queen rponds. It's old gay bar, ’” Fkelste said.

Although many people who loved and cherished Gold Coast pared to “gay Cheers, ” he said was like a “favore hoodie, ” and now that hoodie is gone.

Juli’, Gay-Elr Dive Bar of the Village, Gets Landmarked. The cy’s olst ntually operatg gay bar, wh s stuc-petalled exterr and permanent perfume of sizzlg burger fat, still fills up every night. By that pot, Juli’ was 50 years (not all of them gay) to s fortable tenure as agreeably grizzled, here-and-there greasy lol.

THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC

” The days, the doors open at four (noon on the weekends) and there are still a few hags but also boppg twks explorg the cy via TikTok among the grayg fixtur, many wh rent-stabilized apartments — the Village havg turned om gay ghetto to bankers’ bnch zone long ago. ” On April 21, three gay men, members of the gay activist anizatn the Mattache Society (namake of the parti n by John Cameron Mchell), protted State Liquor Authory guidance agast servg homosexuals by openly clarg themselv and orrg drks ont of a journalist and photographer.

Marks Place, which posted a sign readg “IF YOU ARE GAY, PLEASE GO AWAY, ” was unfortunately closed; the manager of the Howard Johnson’s on Sixth Avenue, well-known as a pickup spot, unhatgly brought them three bourbons. (“I drk, ” he told the reporter, “and who’s to say whether I’m a homosexual or not.

GOLD COAST, WEHO’S INIC ‘DIVE BAR,’ IS THE FOURTH GAY BAR TO CLOSE ON SANTA MONI BLVD.

It has been a long time sce so-lled viat were refed service at Juli’, or for that matter any other bar this great gay cy, but the regnn is still a happy one. Before settled as a gay landmark, was a hangout for newsmen like Walter Wchell, and the tabloid-photographer-tr Weegee ed to pick up msag and mail there the 1940s. Buford and her hband, a straight uple, may have seemed unlikely to renew one of the cy’s queer stutns, but their tert was ially practil: Eugene Buford had worked bar secury before beg an owner, and gay bars offered bs wh fewer fights than their straight unterparts.

(The Bufords also owned the now-shuttered gay bars Two Potato, on Greenwich Street, and the Bike Stop uptown. “After hearg the stori and really gettg to know the muny, ” she says, “I told them, ‘Listen, as long as I’m here, this will always be Juli’ and will always be a gay bar.

The word “gay” speaks to our abily to do exactly that. The word “gay” lls to md our special knack for fdg the light the darkns, for buildg the dance floor off to the si of the cel world. Let’s take a look at some of the bt gay bars Ameri, om the open-air, vil-may-re spac Wt Hollywood to the neighborhood pub downtown St.

THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI

The olst gay bar North Carola (found 1976) draws every tegory and mographic. The entrance is through an unmarked shed behd a Chipotle, and featur a blend but unexpected gay/not crowd which same-sex grdg is rigur. —Alfonso Fernanz NavasCourtyAt: Cheer Up CharliBack when I was a young gay, I saw the olt, most betiful woman the world at Cheer Up Charli.

NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER

—Abigail CovgtonCourtyBrooklyn: The ExleyFull of ntradictns, The Exley is a ltle different than other gay bars. It’s gay Cheers.

It feels like everythg a gay bar should be. When the bar fally reopened Sprg 2022, an entire borough’s worth of gays celebrated by floodg the new back pat all summer and Gger’s has been crowd wh queers ever sce.

—Diana HubbellBoston: Club CafeHow is Boston’s stalwart gay bar/rtrant/performance space inic? It began s life as a beer-and-we offshoot of the Metropolan Health Club, a gym that opened 1983 to serve the gay ctomers who’d been bullied out of other lol clubs at the height of AIDS hysteria.