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Contents:

• THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI
• GAY NIGHTLIFE COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLA: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI
• THE 5 BEST LAS VEGAS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LAS VEGAS
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

THE BT GAY CLUBS AMERI

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WE ARE an all-male clothg optnal bed and breakfast retreat terg to gay, bi, and straight men 21 years or olr. It was bgo night at Ma Street Bar & Cabaret, Laguna Beach’s last gay club. Gay bars around the natn have been disappearg, a trend attributed to greater social acceptance of gays, changg enomic forc and evolvg technology.

GAY NIGHTLIFE COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLA: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

Laguna Beach, particular, has had many obuari wrten for s once-thrivg gay scene. Skyrocketg real tate pric have kept young gays out of the cy and led a number of tablished gay rints to sh out and move to other ci, such as Palm Sprgs.

Now Cooley has to see whether the improvements will pay off – whether gays still want a place to ll their own. Whether a ty gay bar Laguna Beach n still thrive.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

Laguna Beach was once spoken of the same breath as Wt Hollywood, Fire Island and Provcetown, if a miature versn of those more famo gay enclav. The Wt Street Beach was – and still is – renowned among gay vatners.

Wh walkg distance of the spot was a one-block district that boasted a handful of gay bars and rtrants – Ltle Shrimp (which later beme Woody’s); Coast Inn, which hoed the legendary Boom Boom Room; and Ma Street Bar & Cabaret, which also went by Bounce.

Bob Gentry, who served on the Cy Council om 1982 to 1994, was one of the first openly gay mayors the untry.

THE 42 BT GAY BARS AMERI

Gay clubs, Laguna and elsewhere, were both pick-up jots and havens.

“They were the first mon public spac for the gay muny, ” said Lus Hilrbrand, a UCI profsor of film and media studi who has wrten about the gay rights movement. “They were unrstood as social stutns, and much of the foundatnal gay rights activism was about claimg and fendg gay bars. Gentry relled holdg meetgs on mpaigns and anti-gay iativ some of Laguna Beach’s bars.

THE 5 BEST LAS VEGAS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS LAS VEGAS

“They kd of beme the gay mpaign headquarters for our liv, ” Gentry said. Perhaps the heyday of Laguna Beach’s gay scene was already long gone by the time the storied Boom Boom Room closed 2007 after a Beverly Hills billnaire bought the Coast Inn wh plans – never rried out – to turn to an upsle boutique hotel. The hallmark of Laguna’s gay scene – s pactns, s timacy – end up a problem.

John Wallace Benecke, a Laguna Beach terr signer, said growg social acceptance had already begun makg gay clubs ls necsary as a refuge – a trend that’s only grown as gay marriage has been legalized. He rarely go to gay bars the days; his social circle is ma of gay and straight iends. Laguna’s Ltle Shrimp was the first gay bar a llege-age Benecke ever walked to.

“I don’t know when beme gay, ” Cooley said one afternoon before the bar opened. But his own life as a gay man hasn’t been easy – he believ he lost at least one job bee of his sexualy – and he often found a sense of belongg the gay clubs he equented.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

In other words, gay bars need some straight crowds to make . “We’re never the tradnal sense a ‘gay bar’ anymore, ” he said. “In the old days, you uld jt be a gay bar and you’d have a crowd.

A funny thg about those good old days of the gay bars: Many of them me and went.