The Abbey Is For Sale; Wt Hollywood Gay Club Seeks New Owner | Wt Hollywood, CA Patch

Contents:

• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• THE ABBEY, THE LEGENDARY WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR, IS FOR SALE
• THE 10 BEST WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WT HOLLYWOOD
• GAY LOS ANGEL
• WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE
• THE ABBEY IS FOR SALE; WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUB SEEKS NEW OWNER

WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE

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. ” 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.

THE ABBEY, THE LEGENDARY WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR, IS FOR SALE

” (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. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. The Abbey, arguably the untry’s biggt and most famo gay bar Wt Hollywood, is officially on the market.

The Abbey, a historic gay bar Wt Hollywood, has been put up for nearly 10, 000 square feet venue is listed onle by a mercial real tate group as "a generatnal purchase opportuny to acquire one of the world’s most inic nightclubs and rtrants.

THE 10 BEST WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WT HOLLYWOOD

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That was a radil ia for a gay bar at that time.

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"John Duran, who held a seat on the Wt Hollywood Cy Council om 2001 until 2020, told the Los Angel Time, "[Cooley's] visn was plete alignment wh the cy to revigorate historic Boystown and create a world-renowned gay tablishment.

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

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THE ABBEY IS FOR SALE; WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUB SEEKS NEW OWNER

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