At LA’s Unofficial Gay Beach, Vandals Defaced Lifeguard Towers Pated In Progrs Pri Colors | LAist

Contents:

• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• AT LA’S UNOFFICIAL GAY BEACH, VANDALS DEFACED LIFEGUARD TOWERS PATED IN PROGRS PRI COLORS
• LOS ANGEL GAY CISE CLUBS
• GGER ROGERS BEACH, LA’S GAY BEACH, TO BE REGNIZED
• LOS ANGEL GAY SNAS
• SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS LONG BEACH
• THE BT GAY BEACH THE USA

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

They say that the guys LA are so credibly handsome bee eher they want to make the movi or their parents did, failed, but still settled the mt be some tth this as physil perfectn seems to be the norm the gay villag of Wt Hollywood or Santa Moni and Venice beach. There’s Beverly Hills and the shoppg on Roo drive, The Che Theatre wh the movie star hand imprts and Universal Studs to name but a out more about Gay Los Angel at Travel Gay.

After all, this is ground base for the entertament dtry, and ’s relatively mon to spot a "Drag Race" queen (out of drag, of urse) or Hollywood name (maybe openly gay, maybe more discreetly so) while imbibg a drk at a Wt Hollywood gay bar, soakg sun at a gay-iendly beach, takg a gay stand-up edy show, or wanrg around laid-back hipster hood, Silver Lake, or Beverly Hills. (and y, spottg celebri like gay Olympic diver Tom Daley and his Osr-wng hband, Dt Lance Black). Jt north of the Santa Moni Beach borr Pacific Palisas, the approximately 3-e-long Will Rogers State Beach, fact once owned by the Hollywood legend but donated to California state after his ath, has a fabulo gay sectn dubbed “Gger Rogers Beach” wh volleyball urts and plenty of nearby f, rtrants, and cktail spots.

Along wh Santa Moni Boulevard’s Revolver, Mother Lo, and Rage, Micky’s is a cherished, endurg Wt Hollywood gay nightlife stutn. Birthed om a “homophile” magaze of the same name (first published 1953), ONE hosts temporary exhibns at both this Gallery — for example, Stephen Varble’s 1970s genrqueer “gutter art” — and the USC Librari, where ONE’s ma llectn is based.

AT LA’S UNOFFICIAL GAY BEACH, VANDALS DEFACED LIFEGUARD TOWERS PATED IN PROGRS PRI COLORS

Billg self as a “rock n roll gay bar, ” and que a large one at that, expect go-go boys, unrwear parti, bear and Lato-centric nights, and drag shows wh "Drag Race" fav.

LOS ANGEL GAY CISE CLUBS

There’s some irony to the name, sce this licly divey, neighborhood gay bar is actually DTLA’s olst. A Denmark-born, openly gay skre gu, Henriksen achieved first fame treatg Hollywood rints’ cystic ae wh miraculo rults and garnered an A-list client list that’s clud Ellen DeGener, Cher, Charlize Theron, and Elton John.

Only a block by foot yet a world away om Wt Hollywood’s Santa Moni Boulevard gay nightclubs and bars, boutique hotel Pet Ermage f Morocn, Spanish, and Parisian vib wh bohemian chic and a touch of rnival whimsy. If you really want to soak Hollywood old-school glamour and history, the gay-owned Sunset Tower Hotel on Sunset Boulevard is a mt, while more ntemporary-md visors n nsir Palihoe Wt Hollywood. Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016.

GGER ROGERS BEACH, LA’S GAY BEACH, TO BE REGNIZED

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.

LOS ANGEL GAY SNAS

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.

SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI

As a gay man a untry that ma anti-gay iology a foundatn of s anti-Ukrae propaganda, he feared for his life every day. In his seven years as a gay activist, Maysky has never seen Rsian-speakg LGBTQ+ immigrants g to California such great numbers. Petersburg who left Rsia after his parents threatened to sue his therapist who backed him receivg hormone therapy; and Ivan, 18, who is gay, half Rsian and half Ukraian, and “didn’t want to kill people.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS LONG BEACH

Thoands of members of the LGBTQ+ muny are fleeg Rsia’s anti-gay laws. “My parents are very nservative and they don’t believe gay people should exist, ” said Max, who didn’t disclose his last name for fear of retaliatn agast his parents who live St. Most of his iends are the closet or fled the untry — and many of them, he said, were vlently attacked by anti-gay groups before they left.

Thoands of members of the LGBTQ+ muny are fleeg Rsia due to anti-gay laws.

THE BT GAY BEACH THE USA

A survey published 2020 by Mosw-based non-ernmental rearch anizatn the Levada Center, found that about 30% of Rsians wanted to isolate gay people om society. One of the rearchers, Ekatera Kochega, told NBC News that many Rsians “would not want to see gay people existg.

Although is not illegal to be an LGBTQ+ person Rsia, a ago the Kreml passed a so-lled “gay propaganda law” banng the distributn of rmatn about gay relatnships among mors. Maksim and Dmrii say they n’t wa to marry and start a fay, somethg that they, as gay men, wouldn’t be able to experience back home. Wh the temperatur heatg up, is the perfect ocsn to drop towels and h the sands for the new season of the bt California gay beach.