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Contents:

• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• THE ABBEY IS FOR SALE; WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUB SEEKS NEW OWNER
• WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• GAY LOS ANGEL
• THE 10 BEST WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS WT HOLLYWOOD

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

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.

” (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.

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” 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. Jimmy's Backyard, a short-lived speakeasy tucked away on Cosmo Street Hollywood, opened 1929 and was one of LA's first openly gay bars.

Durg the Prohibn era, speakeasi beme a popular avenue for gay-d the “Pansy Craze” between the late 1920s and early 1930s, drag shows (before they had that name) were gag unrground populary.

Jimmy’s Backyard, one of Hollywood’s first openly gay bars that opened on New Year’s Eve 1929, along wh B.

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Listen: When LA's Gays Went Wt. Harassment durg the Deprsn and beyondIt wasn’t jt booze that uld get you arrted durg prohibn — gay spac were also illegal. The LAPD was jt mercils their raids of gay bars.

“The LAPD was jt mercils their raids of gay bars, ” acrdg to Lillian Farman, LGBTQ historian and a -thor of the book “Gay L. Government officials began to view the populary of “impersonator” (drag) revu — and by extensn the visibly gay muny — as part of what plunged the cy to bad enomic tim, acrdg to historil someone was nvicted of “masqueradg” (drsg drag), they uld be charged a fe or required to serve a 10-day jail stt 1930.

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“So, I thk that was why Wt Hollywood beme ‘the gay spot’ … was an pe om the real vicns of the LAPD. Lbians and gay men flocked there to fd nnectn, live more openly and be the film the silent film era, one of s hight paid actrs, Alla Nazimova, beme a bisexual in by turng a hotel to a sapphic hub.

As the years went on, so many gay-iendly plac me on the scene that you uld lerally fill a book. His younger years and owned several gay bars, created yearly addrs books (now known as gay guis) to talog them all — cludg Wt Hollywood.

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The Gay Pri Pri down Hollywood Boulevard June 26, 1977. Known then as Gay Pri Para, marchers on June 28 walked solidary wh simultaneo march other ci to mark the Stonewall Uprisg of 1969. The LAPD chief didn’t hate to remd people that beg gay was still illegal, and the police missn piled on extra perm sts to the pot where the para almost didn’t missn thought the march would bee vlent, so they ially required bonds totalg $1.

Somehow, beg gay beme nflated wh beg whe and wealthy Wt Hollywood. Ah Men, the first gay retail bs Wt Hollywood was signed for rich men. The upsle clothg spot, which opened around the early 1960s, largely fed popular gay men’s fashn, wh see-through mh outfs and tight shirts.

Stud One, a gay dis which opened the 70s, was also a draw for wealthy whe gay men to dance and meet. Acrdg to USC’s ONE Archiv, owner Stt Forb openly discrimated agast gay men of lor and women. The property where popular gay nightclub Stud One once stood.

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Around 1975, the Gay Communy Mobilizatn Commtee anized a boytt and protts agast Stud One. Forb agreed to stop the discrimatory practic but backtracked wh gay bars didn’t have the problems, but many plac were staed by classism, racism and sexism. As a Black woman, she purposefully opened a gay Black dis club Arlgton Heights — away om Wt Hollywood bee of discrimatn.

A County to explore how gay men of lor nstct inty. “They were basilly sayg out loud to , there is such a thg as beg a Black gay man.

Not jt a gay man, but a Black gay man, ” Ayala the sense of disillnment Wt Hollywood was particularly strong. Many of those terviewed felt that beg a man of lor and gay wasn’t weled the cy. 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.