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- LONG BEACH GAY CLUB CLOSG AFTER 47 YEARS
- LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA GAY NIGHTCLUB ‘RIPPL’ TO CLOSE AFTER 45 YEARS
LONG BEACH GAY CLUB CLOSG AFTER 47 YEARS
Club Rippl, an inic Long Beach gay bar that’s been part of the fabric of the LGBT muny for more than 40 years, will say a fal goodbye this weekend.
It beme a gay bar the 1950s, though that closed 1968. “It was a rtrant and an inic gay place, ” Garcia said, “and never went straight and he sold to Mary Azar. It was Hebert’s first time gog to gay bars.
And Hebert and Garcia are proud of what they’ve done– not only operatg the longt-nng gay bar Long Beach, but also beg activists the muny. In 1992, for example, Garcia started the Gay Chamber of Commerce. I remember searchg for the neart gay club on Google Maps and beg surprised that there was one ls than half a e away, facg the beach.
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA GAY NIGHTCLUB ‘RIPPL’ TO CLOSE AFTER 45 YEARS
The buildg, origally an ice cream parlor, is said to have been a gay bar sce the 1950s and was reported to have closed 1968. However, another source claims that Agar sold directly to a group of gay men 1972. Though ’s unclear, the twelve bspeople and the llective of gay men may have been the same group.
In 1974, Larry Hebert stepped si a gay bar for the first time. Even now, wh the cy long sce transformed om an Iowa-by-the-sea to a progrsive mec, Club Rippl is part of the soul of Long Beach’s gay muny. And then, Long Beach’s olst, ntuoly nng gay bar will shutter for good.