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• 12 TOP GAY CIS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS 2023 AND 2024
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• QUEER NEIGHBORHOODS\NMY FAVORE ASPECT OF LOS ANGEL’ QUEER LIFE IS S ABILY TO ACODATE A VARIETY OF SUBCULTUR AND PASSNS DUE TO S ENORMO POPULATN AND WI NSTELLATNS OF NEIGHBORHOODS. WHILE QUEER LIFE IS CENTERED WT HOLLYWOOD, SILVER LAKE, AND DOWNTOWN, PULS THROUGHOUT THE CY BETIFUL, DIVERSE, AND CREATIV WAYS. YOU’LL NEED MORE THAN A FEW LIFETIM TO EXPERIENCE ALL, BUT HERE ARE A FEW STANDOUTS. \NWT HOLLYWOOD\NHOME TO OVER TWENTY GAY BARS WALKG DISTANCE, A PLETHORA OF QUEER-OWNED BS,  LA PRI FTIVAL AND PARA, OUTFT, A HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL, AND OVER A THIRD OF RINTS INTIFIYG AS LGBTQ+, THE CY OF WT HOLLYWOOD IS PATED WH RABOW STREET CROSSGS YEAR ROUND. IT’S NO WONR “WEHO” HAS BEEN A TOP LGBTQ+ WELG STATN SCE THE 1970S AND NTU TO DRAW TRAVELERS AND NEW RINTS OM AROUND THE WORLD. \NSILVER LAKE\NTHOUGH STONEWALL IS LARGELY CREDED WH CG THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT, LOS ANGEL HAS A FEW HISTORIL LGBTQ+ UPRISGS THAT PREDATE THE INN’S 1969 RTS, CLUDG THE BLACK CAT RAIDS AND PROTTS SILVER LAKE THAT TOOK PLACE 1967. THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS LONG BEEN AN EPICENTER FOR QUEER CULTURE— WAS HOME TO “AMERI’S FIRST CELEBRATED DRAG PERFORMER,” JULIAN ELTGE, THE 1910S/20S, THE MATTACHE SOCIETY (SAID TO BE AMERI’S FIRST GAY ORANIZATN, T. 1950), AS WELL AS A PREVALENT 80S LEATHER SCENE. THE NEIGHBORHOOD’S QUEER HEART STILL BEATS STRONGLY SPE GENTRIFITN AS MANY QUEER-OWNED BS NTUE TO THRIVE. \NDOWNTOWN LA\NDTLA HAS RECENTLY TABLISHED SELF AS AN UP-AND-G QUEER NEIGHBORHOOD SCE A HANDFUL OF QUEER-OWNED BS AND BARS OPENED 2015, BUT S QUEER HISTORY IS LONG AND STORIED, CLUDG SOME OF THE FIRST LGBTQ+ RTS THE UNTRY AT COOPER DO-NUTS 1959, AS WELL AS A LLECTN OF GAY-IENDLY HANGOUTS AND CISG LOL PERISHG SQUARE LLED “THE RUN” PREVALENT OM THE 20S TO THE 60S. THE LOFTY NEIGHBORHOOD EVEN PUTS ON ’S OWN PRI FTIVAL, DTLA PROUD, EVERY AUGT. \N \NBT PLAC TO STAY\NACE HOTEL DOWNTOWN LOS ANGEL\NTHERE ARE A HANDFUL OF NEW HOTELS SPRGG UP DOWNTOWN, BUT THE ACE REMAS ONE OF THE MOST QUEER-IENDLY, WH S PRI POOL PARTI, SOCIALS, AND S STUNNG PROGRAMMG AT THE 1927 GOTHIC-STYLE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL, WHERE PERFORMERS LIKE SASCHA VELOUR, BIAN DEL R, KATYA ZAMOLODCHIKOVA, AND MANY MORE HAVE PERFORMED SOLO SHOWS TO SOLD OUT DIENC.\NPALIHOE WT HOLLYWOOD\NSTEPS AWAY OM THE REVELRY ON NEARBY SANTA MONI BOULEVARD, THE BOUTIQUE 37-ROOM PALIHOE WT HOLLYWOOD IS A TE REFUGE THE HEART OF ONE OF THE WORLDS LARGT GAYBORHOODS. THE HOTEL HAS HANDSOME TERRS, A SUN-DRENCHED ROOFTOP WH WI VIEWS OF LOS ANGEL, AS WELL AS AN ELEGANT BAR.\NAIRBNBS SILVER LAKE\NFEEL LIKE A LOL AND RENT A BUNGALOW SILVER LAKE. BIS THEIR FAIRLY CENTRAL LOTN THE CY BETWEEN DTLA AND WT HOLLYWOOD, YOU’LL BE CLOSE TO HIP STOR, QUEER HISTORY, AND LIVELY BARS LIKE AKBAR.\N","MARKER":{"NAME":"","IMAGE":{},"SCRIPTN":"","NTENT":[]},"ID":1100153866},{"TYPE":"SLISHOW","IMAG":[{"RETAHEIGHT":802,"MOBILESRC":","SRC":","MOBILEWIDTH":558,"SQUARELARGEHEIGHT":640,"WIDTH":1200,"PTN":"CUTI. ","HEIGHT":802,"SQUARELARGEWIDTH":640,"SQUAREHUGE":","RETASRC":","MOBILEHEIGHT":373,"ALT":"","SQUARESMALL":","RETAWIDTH":1200,"SQUAREHUGEHEIGHT":802,"SQUARESMALLHEIGHT":320,"SQUAREMEDIUM":","SQUAREMEDIUMWIDTH":480,"SQUAREMEDIUMHEIGHT":480,"ID":20790,"SQUARESMALLWIDTH":320,"SQUARELARGE":","SQUAREHUGEWIDTH":960}],"ID":176911883},{"TYPE":"PARAGRAPH","NTENT":"QUEER-OWNED BS \NCUTI\NCUTI, A TWO-STORY FFEE SHOP AND MUNY CENTER EAST HOLLYWOOD MAY BE ONE OF THE ONLY BRICK-AND-MORTAR QUEER F THE STAT AND IS A GREAT PLACE TO MEET PEOPLE BEYOND THE BARS AND CLUBS OF THE GREATER LOS ANGEL AREA. THE BRIGHTLY L ART DE TERR ALSO HAS A FEW SHELV HOLDG A SMALL BUT POWERFUL LIBRARY OF QUEER THEORY AND LERATURE—THE SPACE ALSO HOSTS QUEER BOOK CLUBS, SOCIALS, AND OTHER EVENTS. \NCASA DEL CAMPO\NSILVER LAKE’S CASA DEL CAMPO HAS BEEN AROUND SCE 1962 AND HAS BEE A QUEER LANDMARK SCE WAS ONCE SURROUND BY BATH HO AND LEATHER BARS. BIS S HEARTY CAL-TEX MENU (AND HEAVY POUR MARGARAS) ’S KNOWN FOR S BARET THEATRE, THE CAVERN CLUB THEATER, WHICH PUTS ON MPY PLAYS, DRAG SHOWS, AND DANCE PERFORMANC. \NWILDFANG\NNEW YORK AND PORTALND AREN’T THE ONLY CI WH THE QUEER-OWNED FEMIST FASHN BRAND KNOWN AS WILDFANG. LOS ANGEL HAS S OWN BRICK-AND-MORTAR STORE THE HEART OF SILVER LAKE, ON THE BY SUNSET BOULEVARD. \N","MARKER":{"NAME":"","IMAGE":{},"SCRIPTN":"","NTENT":[]},"ID":2384467355},{"TYPE":"SLISHOW","IMAG":[{"RETAHEIGHT":802,"MOBILESRC":","SRC":","MOBILEWIDTH":558,"SQUARELARGEHEIGHT":640,"WIDTH":1200,"PTN":"JUICY LEAF.","HEIGHT":802,"SQUARELARGEWIDTH":640,"SQUAREHUGE":","RETASRC":","MOBILEHEIGHT":373,"ALT":"","SQUARESMALL":","RETAWIDTH":1200,"SQUAREHUGEHEIGHT":802,"SQUARESMALLHEIGHT":320,"SQUAREMEDIUM":","SQUAREMEDIUMWIDTH":480,"SQUAREMEDIUMHEIGHT":480,"ID":20792,"SQUARESMALLWIDTH":320,"SQUARELARGE":","SQUAREHUGEWIDTH":960}],"ID":2908916263},{"TYPE":"PARAGRAPH","NTENT":"THE JUICY LEAF\NWHILE VISG L.A., ’S HARD NOT TO FALL LOVE WH THE CTI, SUCCULENTS, AND OTHER LORFUL PLANTS LEAPG OM THE CY’S GARNS. HIGHLAND PARK’S QUEER-OWNED BOUTIQUE, THE JUICY LEAF, SELLS A BRIGHT ASSORTMENT OF UNIQUE PLANTS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE URBAN GARNER. \NCELEBRATN THEATER\NCELEBRATN THEATER, NOW BASED AT THE LEX HOLLYWOOD, WAS FOUND 1982 BY MATTACHE SOCIETY -FOUNR CHARL ROWLAND AND HAS SCE PUT TOGETHER S OF PERFORMANC CLUDG THE ORIGAL NAKED BOYS SGG! AND A CRILLY-ACCLAIMED PRODUCTN OF BOYS FROM OZ.\NWILL ROGERS STATE BEACH\NWHILE MUCH OF LOS ANGEL’S QUEER LIFE IS BASED WT HOLLYWOOD, SILVER LAKE, AND DTLA, THE WT SI NTAS A SIGNIFINT QUEER POPULATN (AND SOME TERTG QUEER HISTORY)—BUT NO CURRENT FULL TIME QUEER TABLISHMENTS OR BARS. THE AREA DO HOWEVER, HAVE ’S OWN “UNOFFICIAL” GAY BEACH, NICKNAMED “GGER ROGERS BEACH” NEAR LIFEGUARD STATN 26 ON THE WI SAND BEACH, JT A SHORT DRIVE NORTH OF SANTA MONI.\N","MARKER":{"NAME":"","IMAGE":{},"SCRIPTN":"","NTENT":[]},"ID":3050323993},{"TYPE":"SLISHOW","IMAG":[{"RETAHEIGHT":899,"MOBILESRC":","SRC":","MOBILEWIDTH":498,"SQUARELARGEHEIGHT":640,"WIDTH":1200,"PTN":"VIEW OM GRIFFH PARK. ","HEIGHT":899,"SQUARELARGEWIDTH":640,"SQUAREHUGE":","RETASRC":","MOBILEHEIGHT":373,"ALT":"","SQUARESMALL":","RETAWIDTH":1200,"SQUAREHUGEHEIGHT":899,"SQUARESMALLHEIGHT":320,"SQUAREMEDIUM":","SQUAREMEDIUMWIDTH":480,"SQUAREMEDIUMHEIGHT":480,"ID":20791,"SQUARESMALLWIDTH":320,"SQUARELARGE":","SQUAREHUGEWIDTH":960}],"ID":345040291},{"TYPE":"PARAGRAPH","NTENT":"ARTS & CULTURE \NONE NATNAL GAY & LBIAN ARCHIV AT THE USC LIBRARI\NTHE ONE ARCHIV AT USC HOLD THE LARGT LLECTN OF LGBTQ MATERIALS—BOOKS, PERDILS, CLOTHG, ARTWORKS, PHOTOGRAPHY, D RERDGS, VIOS, LETTERS, EPHEMERA, AND MUCH, MUCH MORE— THE WORLD. THE SPACE IS NAMED AFTER ONE MAGAZE, THE FIRST “NATNAL HOMOSEXUAL PERDIL” FOUND 1952. VIS TUDAY-SATURDAY AND BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THEIR SIBLG GALLERY SPACE WT HOLLYWOOD, ONE ARCHIV GALLERY AND MM, WHICH FEATUR TN IATIV AND THOUGHT PROVOKG EXHIBS. WHILE NOT ASSOCIATED WH ONE, WT HOLLYWOOD IS ALSO HOME TO THE  THE JUNE L. MAZER LBIAN ARCHIV.\NLACMA\NLOS ANGEL HAS AN CREDIBLE ASSORTMENT OF NTEMPORARY ART MMS HOSTG QUEER EXHIBS AND ARTISTS AND LOS ANGEL COUNTY MM OF ART IS NO EXCEPTN. HERE, MAPPLETHORP, HOCKNEYS, TOM OF FLANDS, EAKS, AND LIGONS HAVE CLEARED THE STAGE FOR CURRENT QUEER ARTISTS LIKE TERA LA TORRE, DEV GALDO, AND PL MPAGI SEPUYA TO SHOWSE THEIR NOVATIVE NTEMPORARY WORK. \NGRIFFH PARK\NAT 4,210 ACR (NEARLY FIVE CENTRAL PARKS!), GRIFFH PARK IS SAID TO BE ONE OF THE LARGT MUNICIPAL PARKS WH URBAN WILRNS AREAS THE UNTRY. THE MASSIVE PARK IS HOME TO MORE THAN 53 OF STEEP HIKG TRAILS, THE AUTRY MM OF THE AMERIN WT, THE GEO GRIFFH OBSERVATORY, AND S VERY OWN MOUNTA LN, P-22. THE PARK WAS EVEN THE SETTG OF A “GAY-” MONSTRATN ANIZED 1970 BY THE GROUP THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT.\N \NQUEER NIGHTLIFE
• NIGHTTOURS GAY NIGHTLIFE AND TRAVEL 2023
• JUNE FIRST STOP ON GAY CISE’S TRIP AROUND ALASKA
• CHECK OUT OUR TOP 7 NEW GAY CIS & TOURS FOR 2023
• SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI

12 TOP GAY CIS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS 2023 AND 2024

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QUEER NEIGHBORHOODS\NMY FAVORE ASPECT OF LOS ANGEL’ QUEER LIFE IS S ABILY TO ACODATE A VARIETY OF SUBCULTUR AND PASSNS DUE TO S ENORMO POPULATN AND WI NSTELLATNS OF NEIGHBORHOODS. WHILE QUEER LIFE IS CENTERED WT HOLLYWOOD, SILVER LAKE, AND DOWNTOWN, PULS THROUGHOUT THE CY BETIFUL, DIVERSE, AND CREATIV WAYS. YOU’LL NEED MORE THAN A FEW LIFETIM TO EXPERIENCE ALL, BUT HERE ARE A FEW STANDOUTS. \NWT HOLLYWOOD\NHOME TO OVER TWENTY GAY BARS WALKG DISTANCE, A PLETHORA OF QUEER-OWNED BS,  LA PRI FTIVAL AND PARA, OUTFT, A HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL, AND OVER A THIRD OF RINTS INTIFIYG AS LGBTQ+, THE CY OF WT HOLLYWOOD IS PATED WH RABOW STREET CROSSGS YEAR ROUND. IT’S NO WONR “WEHO” HAS BEEN A TOP LGBTQ+ WELG STATN SCE THE 1970S AND NTU TO DRAW TRAVELERS AND NEW RINTS OM AROUND THE WORLD. \NSILVER LAKE\NTHOUGH STONEWALL IS LARGELY CREDED WH CG THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT, LOS ANGEL HAS A FEW HISTORIL LGBTQ+ UPRISGS THAT PREDATE THE INN’S 1969 RTS, CLUDG THE BLACK CAT RAIDS AND PROTTS SILVER LAKE THAT TOOK PLACE 1967. THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS LONG BEEN AN EPICENTER FOR QUEER CULTURE— WAS HOME TO “AMERI’S FIRST CELEBRATED DRAG PERFORMER,” JULIAN ELTGE, THE 1910S/20S, THE MATTACHE SOCIETY (SAID TO BE AMERI’S FIRST GAY ORANIZATN, T. 1950), AS WELL AS A PREVALENT 80S LEATHER SCENE. THE NEIGHBORHOOD’S QUEER HEART STILL BEATS STRONGLY SPE GENTRIFITN AS MANY QUEER-OWNED BS NTUE TO THRIVE. \NDOWNTOWN LA\NDTLA HAS RECENTLY TABLISHED SELF AS AN UP-AND-G QUEER NEIGHBORHOOD SCE A HANDFUL OF QUEER-OWNED BS AND BARS OPENED 2015, BUT S QUEER HISTORY IS LONG AND STORIED, CLUDG SOME OF THE FIRST LGBTQ+ RTS THE UNTRY AT COOPER DO-NUTS 1959, AS WELL AS A LLECTN OF GAY-IENDLY HANGOUTS AND CISG LOL PERISHG SQUARE LLED “THE RUN” PREVALENT OM THE 20S TO THE 60S. THE LOFTY NEIGHBORHOOD EVEN PUTS ON ’S OWN PRI FTIVAL, DTLA PROUD, EVERY AUGT. \N \NBT PLAC TO STAY\NACE HOTEL DOWNTOWN LOS ANGEL\NTHERE ARE A HANDFUL OF NEW HOTELS SPRGG UP DOWNTOWN, BUT THE ACE REMAS ONE OF THE MOST QUEER-IENDLY, WH S PRI POOL PARTI, SOCIALS, AND S STUNNG PROGRAMMG AT THE 1927 GOTHIC-STYLE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL, WHERE PERFORMERS LIKE SASCHA VELOUR, BIAN DEL R, KATYA ZAMOLODCHIKOVA, AND MANY MORE HAVE PERFORMED SOLO SHOWS TO SOLD OUT DIENC.\NPALIHOE WT HOLLYWOOD\NSTEPS AWAY OM THE REVELRY ON NEARBY SANTA MONI BOULEVARD, THE BOUTIQUE 37-ROOM PALIHOE WT HOLLYWOOD IS A TE REFUGE THE HEART OF ONE OF THE WORLDS LARGT GAYBORHOODS. THE HOTEL HAS HANDSOME TERRS, A SUN-DRENCHED ROOFTOP WH WI VIEWS OF LOS ANGEL, AS WELL AS AN ELEGANT BAR.\NAIRBNBS SILVER LAKE\NFEEL LIKE A LOL AND RENT A BUNGALOW SILVER LAKE. BIS THEIR FAIRLY CENTRAL LOTN THE CY BETWEEN DTLA AND WT HOLLYWOOD, YOU’LL BE CLOSE TO HIP STOR, QUEER HISTORY, AND LIVELY BARS LIKE AKBAR.\N","MARKER":{"NAME":"","IMAGE":{},"SCRIPTN":"","NTENT":[]},"ID":1100153866},{"TYPE":"SLISHOW","IMAG":[{"RETAHEIGHT":802,"MOBILESRC":","SRC":","MOBILEWIDTH":558,"SQUARELARGEHEIGHT":640,"WIDTH":1200,"PTN":"CUTI. ","HEIGHT":802,"SQUARELARGEWIDTH":640,"SQUAREHUGE":","RETASRC":","MOBILEHEIGHT":373,"ALT":"","SQUARESMALL":","RETAWIDTH":1200,"SQUAREHUGEHEIGHT":802,"SQUARESMALLHEIGHT":320,"SQUAREMEDIUM":","SQUAREMEDIUMWIDTH":480,"SQUAREMEDIUMHEIGHT":480,"ID":20790,"SQUARESMALLWIDTH":320,"SQUARELARGE":","SQUAREHUGEWIDTH":960}],"ID":176911883},{"TYPE":"PARAGRAPH","NTENT":"QUEER-OWNED BS \NCUTI\NCUTI, A TWO-STORY FFEE SHOP AND MUNY CENTER EAST HOLLYWOOD MAY BE ONE OF THE ONLY BRICK-AND-MORTAR QUEER F THE STAT AND IS A GREAT PLACE TO MEET PEOPLE BEYOND THE BARS AND CLUBS OF THE GREATER LOS ANGEL AREA. THE BRIGHTLY L ART DE TERR ALSO HAS A FEW SHELV HOLDG A SMALL BUT POWERFUL LIBRARY OF QUEER THEORY AND LERATURE—THE SPACE ALSO HOSTS QUEER BOOK CLUBS, SOCIALS, AND OTHER EVENTS. \NCASA DEL CAMPO\NSILVER LAKE’S CASA DEL CAMPO HAS BEEN AROUND SCE 1962 AND HAS BEE A QUEER LANDMARK SCE WAS ONCE SURROUND BY BATH HO AND LEATHER BARS. BIS S HEARTY CAL-TEX MENU (AND HEAVY POUR MARGARAS) ’S KNOWN FOR S BARET THEATRE, THE CAVERN CLUB THEATER, WHICH PUTS ON MPY PLAYS, DRAG SHOWS, AND DANCE PERFORMANC. \NWILDFANG\NNEW YORK AND PORTALND AREN’T THE ONLY CI WH THE QUEER-OWNED FEMIST FASHN BRAND KNOWN AS WILDFANG. LOS ANGEL HAS S OWN BRICK-AND-MORTAR STORE THE HEART OF SILVER LAKE, ON THE BY SUNSET BOULEVARD. \N","MARKER":{"NAME":"","IMAGE":{},"SCRIPTN":"","NTENT":[]},"ID":2384467355},{"TYPE":"SLISHOW","IMAG":[{"RETAHEIGHT":802,"MOBILESRC":","SRC":","MOBILEWIDTH":558,"SQUARELARGEHEIGHT":640,"WIDTH":1200,"PTN":"JUICY LEAF.","HEIGHT":802,"SQUARELARGEWIDTH":640,"SQUAREHUGE":","RETASRC":","MOBILEHEIGHT":373,"ALT":"","SQUARESMALL":","RETAWIDTH":1200,"SQUAREHUGEHEIGHT":802,"SQUARESMALLHEIGHT":320,"SQUAREMEDIUM":","SQUAREMEDIUMWIDTH":480,"SQUAREMEDIUMHEIGHT":480,"ID":20792,"SQUARESMALLWIDTH":320,"SQUARELARGE":","SQUAREHUGEWIDTH":960}],"ID":2908916263},{"TYPE":"PARAGRAPH","NTENT":"THE JUICY LEAF\NWHILE VISG L.A., ’S HARD NOT TO FALL LOVE WH THE CTI, SUCCULENTS, AND OTHER LORFUL PLANTS LEAPG OM THE CY’S GARNS. HIGHLAND PARK’S QUEER-OWNED BOUTIQUE, THE JUICY LEAF, SELLS A BRIGHT ASSORTMENT OF UNIQUE PLANTS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE URBAN GARNER. \NCELEBRATN THEATER\NCELEBRATN THEATER, NOW BASED AT THE LEX HOLLYWOOD, WAS FOUND 1982 BY MATTACHE SOCIETY -FOUNR CHARL ROWLAND AND HAS SCE PUT TOGETHER S OF PERFORMANC CLUDG THE ORIGAL NAKED BOYS SGG! AND A CRILLY-ACCLAIMED PRODUCTN OF BOYS FROM OZ.\NWILL ROGERS STATE BEACH\NWHILE MUCH OF LOS ANGEL’S QUEER LIFE IS BASED WT HOLLYWOOD, SILVER LAKE, AND DTLA, THE WT SI NTAS A SIGNIFINT QUEER POPULATN (AND SOME TERTG QUEER HISTORY)—BUT NO CURRENT FULL TIME QUEER TABLISHMENTS OR BARS. THE AREA DO HOWEVER, HAVE ’S OWN “UNOFFICIAL” GAY BEACH, NICKNAMED “GGER ROGERS BEACH” NEAR LIFEGUARD STATN 26 ON THE WI SAND BEACH, JT A SHORT DRIVE NORTH OF SANTA MONI.\N","MARKER":{"NAME":"","IMAGE":{},"SCRIPTN":"","NTENT":[]},"ID":3050323993},{"TYPE":"SLISHOW","IMAG":[{"RETAHEIGHT":899,"MOBILESRC":","SRC":","MOBILEWIDTH":498,"SQUARELARGEHEIGHT":640,"WIDTH":1200,"PTN":"VIEW OM GRIFFH PARK. ","HEIGHT":899,"SQUARELARGEWIDTH":640,"SQUAREHUGE":","RETASRC":","MOBILEHEIGHT":373,"ALT":"","SQUARESMALL":","RETAWIDTH":1200,"SQUAREHUGEHEIGHT":899,"SQUARESMALLHEIGHT":320,"SQUAREMEDIUM":","SQUAREMEDIUMWIDTH":480,"SQUAREMEDIUMHEIGHT":480,"ID":20791,"SQUARESMALLWIDTH":320,"SQUARELARGE":","SQUAREHUGEWIDTH":960}],"ID":345040291},{"TYPE":"PARAGRAPH","NTENT":"ARTS & CULTURE \NONE NATNAL GAY & LBIAN ARCHIV AT THE USC LIBRARI\NTHE ONE ARCHIV AT USC HOLD THE LARGT LLECTN OF LGBTQ MATERIALS—BOOKS, PERDILS, CLOTHG, ARTWORKS, PHOTOGRAPHY, D RERDGS, VIOS, LETTERS, EPHEMERA, AND MUCH, MUCH MORE— THE WORLD. THE SPACE IS NAMED AFTER ONE MAGAZE, THE FIRST “NATNAL HOMOSEXUAL PERDIL” FOUND 1952. VIS TUDAY-SATURDAY AND BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THEIR SIBLG GALLERY SPACE WT HOLLYWOOD, ONE ARCHIV GALLERY AND MM, WHICH FEATUR TN IATIV AND THOUGHT PROVOKG EXHIBS. WHILE NOT ASSOCIATED WH ONE, WT HOLLYWOOD IS ALSO HOME TO THE  THE JUNE L. MAZER LBIAN ARCHIV.\NLACMA\NLOS ANGEL HAS AN CREDIBLE ASSORTMENT OF NTEMPORARY ART MMS HOSTG QUEER EXHIBS AND ARTISTS AND LOS ANGEL COUNTY MM OF ART IS NO EXCEPTN. HERE, MAPPLETHORP, HOCKNEYS, TOM OF FLANDS, EAKS, AND LIGONS HAVE CLEARED THE STAGE FOR CURRENT QUEER ARTISTS LIKE TERA LA TORRE, DEV GALDO, AND PL MPAGI SEPUYA TO SHOWSE THEIR NOVATIVE NTEMPORARY WORK. \NGRIFFH PARK\NAT 4,210 ACR (NEARLY FIVE CENTRAL PARKS!), GRIFFH PARK IS SAID TO BE ONE OF THE LARGT MUNICIPAL PARKS WH URBAN WILRNS AREAS THE UNTRY. THE MASSIVE PARK IS HOME TO MORE THAN 53 OF STEEP HIKG TRAILS, THE AUTRY MM OF THE AMERIN WT, THE GEO GRIFFH OBSERVATORY, AND S VERY OWN MOUNTA LN, P-22. THE PARK WAS EVEN THE SETTG OF A “GAY-” MONSTRATN ANIZED 1970 BY THE GROUP THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT.\N \NQUEER NIGHTLIFE

For over 30 years, Atlantis Events has hosted inic all-gay vatns some of the most stunng and exotic plac on the pla. What started as a “gay week on the beach wh iends” has sce turned to the largt gay-owned pany the world dited to creatg unique vatns for LGBTQ travelers. Los Angel is often regard as a gay-iendly place though the cy certaly has neighborhoods and pockets where LGBT people feel more fortable and wele than others.

NIGHTTOURS GAY NIGHTLIFE AND TRAVEL 2023

The neighborhood has an credible 25 gay bars, 26 gay shops and 69 gay iendly rtrants and untg. Wt Hollywood is one the most popular neighborhood for gay nightlife is all of Los Angel.

What we re about most though is Lonely Pla’s picks for The Most Gay-iendly Plac on the Pla to vis 2015 (see the list below and on the followg pag).

JUNE FIRST STOP ON GAY CISE’S TRIP AROUND ALASKA

Wh 25 gay bars packed wh ls than 2 square has an extensive offerg a pact space.

There are other popular areas of LA like Silver Lake or downtown, but Wt Hollywood is the ma draw for gays. Other big events clu Los Angel Gay Pri, the HBO Emmy Party, Sir Elton John’s Annual Osr Party, the Vany Fair Osr Party, The Rose Para and Outft, the longt nng LGBT film ftival the untry. This is where LA’s trendy gays e to play and you’ll fd most on or centered near Santa Moni Boulevard – the heart of the LGBT nightlife scene.

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Home to over twenty gay bars walkg distance, a plethora of queer-owned bs, LA Pri Ftival and Para, Outft, a Halloween Carnival, and over a third of rints intifiyg as LGBTQ+, the Cy of Wt Hollywood is pated wh rabow street crossgs year round.

SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI

Though Stonewall is largely creded wh cg the gay rights movement, Los Angel has a few historil LGBTQ+ uprisgs that predate the Inn’s 1969 rts, cludg The Black Cat raids and protts Silver Lake that took place 1967. The neighborhood has long been an epicenter for queer culture— was home to “Ameri’s first celebrated drag performer, ” Julian Eltge, the 1910s/20s, the Mattache Society (said to be Ameri’s first gay oranizatn, t. DTLA has recently tablished self as an up-and-g queer neighborhood sce a handful of queer-owned bs and bars opened 2015, but s queer history is long and storied, cludg some of the first LGBTQ+ rts the untry at Cooper Do-Nuts 1959, as well as a llectn of gay-iendly hangouts and cisg lol Perishg Square lled “The Run” prevalent om the 20s to the 60s.

Steps away om the revelry on nearby Santa Moni Boulevard, the boutique 37-room Palihoe Wt Hollywood is a te refuge the heart of one of the worlds largt gayborhoods.

The area do however, have ’s own “unofficial” gay beach, nicknamed “Gger Rogers Beach” near lifeguard statn 26 on the wi sand beach, jt a short drive north of Santa Moni.

ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv at the USC Librari.

The space is named after ONE Magaze, the first “natnal homosexual perdil” found 1952. The park was even the settg of a “gay-” monstratn anized 1970 by the group The Gay Liberatn Front.