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Contents:
- A HISTORY OF L.A.’S GAY BAR SCENE, TOLD MATCHBOOKS
- GAY BARS OF LA: THEN AND NOW
- SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS
- THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
- GAY LOS ANGEL
- A GUI TO GAY LOS ANGEL, 1965
A HISTORY OF L.A.’S GAY BAR SCENE, TOLD MATCHBOOKS
A survey of 200 matchbooks om a bygone era of L.A.'s gay bar scene at the downtown Central Library. * oldest gay bar in los angeles *
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.
GAY BARS OF LA: THEN AND NOW
One of Los Angel' last historic gay bars, The Other Si was a “bt iend” to a generatn of LGBT bar goers who were left wonrg: Where will we go now? * oldest gay bar in los angeles *
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.
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS
Back the pre-ter days of the early seventi, LA was flh wh gay bars and nightclubs (assiatn ntu to fell LGBT gatherg plac). Queerty took a look at about a dozen vtage... * oldest gay bar in los angeles *
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.
THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
San Fernando Valley has a secret history of gay and lbian bars. Ventura Boulevard was nsired the Santa Moni Boulevard of the Valley. * oldest gay bar in los angeles *
-based queer artist who was a regular at a number of the spots worked briefly as a barback at Cuffs, a major gay hangout of the recent “was credibly dark and super cisey, ” Jony rells.
GAY LOS ANGEL
The bt gay bar and club optns L.A., om flirty Wt Hollywood stutns to hip Silver Lake alternativ, pl bars Venice and the Valley. * oldest gay bar in los angeles *
“As Silver Lake — and the whole landspe of gay Hollywood and the east si — changed so much I always had this ia my head of turng the place back to Cuffs for one night, ” he says. The early ’90s, there were more than a dozen [gay bars] on the east si.
”The closg of many east-si gay bars n be blamed, part, on gentrifitn’s effect on rents.
A GUI TO GAY LOS ANGEL, 1965
The bt gay bars, dance clubs, gay-rated hotels, gay snas and gay cise clubs Los Angel. * oldest gay bar in los angeles *
It also n be argued that the ongog expansn of jt what queerns n mean uld have ma a segment of gay bars, which thrived a sort of self-intified exclivy, obsolete.