Lovg and Partyg at Chi: 'The Bt Lato Gay Bar' Montebello | Artbound | Lk TV

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• LOVG AND PARTYG AT CHI: 'THE BT LATO GAY BAR' MONTEBELLO
• LOVG AND PARTYG AT CHI: 'THE BT LATO GAY BAR' MONTEBELLO
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

LOVG AND PARTYG AT CHI: 'THE BT LATO GAY BAR' MONTEBELLO

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. 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.

LOVG AND PARTYG AT CHI: 'THE BT LATO GAY BAR' MONTEBELLO

D’s Cocktail Lounge, a most bar largely off the gay-dar, loted a Montebello mi-mall.

The bar drew a lol Mexin-Amerin clientele, a smatterg of self-intifyg gay men and women, trans women and drag queens, and heterosexuals havg a flg wh someone not their signifint other. Sokol, a TV producer, was enmhed the gay/art/mp/rock band scene of Echo Park and Silver Lake, as was I.

Owned by the proprietor of the gay vaquero dance club, Tempo, the Sre had a long, queer past.

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

It was once a gay bar lled The Keyhole, the ont door surround by a large, woon keyhole shape (that remaed when was the Sre and beyond) day, Sokol lled and told me that he and Licón had bought the bar but didn’t know what to ll . I thought about Montebello, about queerns and reprentatn, and how sire uld be ptured while avoidg the clichés of so much homoerotic imagery. I wanted imag for Chi that were aimed at a predomantly gay Lato male dience, athetilly rmed by neighborhoods like Montebello, largely workg and middle class.