San Fernando Valley has a secret history of gay bars

Contents:

• SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS
• VENTURA BOULEVARD SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS
• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SAN FERNANDO VALLEY
• THE VALLEY MIGHT BE L.A.'S MOST GREGAR "GAYBORHOOD" OF ALL
• GAY BARS OF LA: THEN AND NOW

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS

7 thgs you didn’t know about the historic gay club Oil Can Harry’s. “ ‘Over the hill’ was a mon viewpot of Valley gays, ” Adks says an terview.

VENTURA BOULEVARD SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF GAY BARS

Up Stairs Lounge fire largt mass murr of gay people US history.

Here, Adks shar his gay memori about eight spac that were loted on Venture Boulevard.

Apache Terrory, also know as The Apache, was a popular gay bar Stud Cy on Ventura Boulevard.

THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS

Later, the Ventura Boulevard lotn beme another gay bar, Everybody’s. “Keh’s Touch of Class was a gay rtrant wh a cktail lounge and rotatg mil performers like Wayne Moore and Brenda Silas Moore.

Wayne was a sger-songwrer who played all the gay piano bars, and Brenda was his ex-wife and baret performer, ” Adks says.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SAN FERNANDO VALLEY

And lbians around the untry, gathered bars, church and livg rooms, will celebrate the but of the first gay lead character on work when 48-year-old Jody Young me out eight years ago, there was no TV show, no parti. As dramatilly as her life changed, she said, much of stayed the same: the job, the errands, the neighbors, the hoe Northridge where she’s lived for 22 never occurred to her to move to a so-lled gay area like Wt Hollywood.

“Beg gay don’t change that, ” she said. Ined, a unty hate crim report released last week showed only 17 such cints agast homosexuals North Hollywood, pared to 61 Hollywood and 45 Wt Miller, a gay real tate agent who has sold ho to and for lbians all over the Valley, said those clients have been jt like everyone else buyg ho here: primarily profsnal, upwardly mobile, baby-boomer upl. ”The big ncern at gay bars was police raids, relled Edie Brown, 61, who started equentg that scene while still a stunt at San Fernando High School.

“It was suburbia, ” said Fleischman, who is on the board of directors for the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Archiv. I liked here, but I wonred what was gog to be like to be gay here.

THE VALLEY MIGHT BE L.A.'S MOST GREGAR "GAYBORHOOD" OF ALL

Still, there are sttered neighborhoods to which, for whatever reason, lbians tate agent Kathy Barbier, for example, sold three hom to lbians one Van Nuys neighborhood where several other gay women already than a e away, Sheila O’Kane manag an apartment buildg where lbians live 15 of the 20 uns. Long Beach, a cy wh one-third the populatn of the Valley, had men were the targets of the vast majory--around 75%--of all anti-gay hate crim. That’s bee the men tend to be more noticeable, said Lisa Phillips, the LAPD’s field liaison to the gay and lbian is a chance that the publicy generated by the “Ellen” show uld spark hostili toward lbians, said Sharen Shaw Johnson, chief advote for the Los Angel Gay & Lbian Center’s anti-vlence project.

GAY BARS OF LA: THEN AND NOW

Hate crim agast gays last year peaked at tim of greater media verage: May, when the U. Supreme Court overturned Colorado’s Amendment 2, which would have barred the cln of gays anti-discrimatn laws; and June, when most gay pri paras and celebratns were held. “Natnally and Los Angel for years, we’ve seen a very direct rrelatn between gay and lbian visibily and attacks, ” Johnson said.

The Valley is the place to settle down and live a more tranquil Newman, 47, an attorney who is lol print of the Log Cab Club, a gay Republin group, said she’ll go out to Wt Hollywood, but prefers g home to Enco.