The Frat Hoe is the last gay bar standg Garn Grove - Los Angel Tim

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• THE FRAT HOE IS THE LAST GAY BAR STANDG GARN GROVE
• GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS ORANGE COUNTY
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— Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective. Gay Orange County. Known to be more nservative than other areas wh the state, you won’t fd many signated gay and lbian bars here, but there’s still plenty of fun to be had the sun.

THE FRAT HOE IS THE LAST GAY BAR STANDG GARN GROVE

Wh Wt Hollywood to the north and Hillcrt due south San Diego, you’re never to far away om a gayborhood Orange County. The Gay Scene Orange County.

View the Gay Scene Orange County. M., but Shelly Heier and Cris McKnight — “two straight chicks nng a gay bar, ” they quip — are bit the afternoons, gettg the place clean, stocked and ready for historilly nservative Garn Grove — as recently as last Tuday the Cy Council rejected a motn to fly a rabow flag at Cy Hall, but agreed to light up a clock tower the same lors for Pri Month — don’t have the welg reputatn of, say, Laguna Beach, Long Beach or Santa Ana, once boasted as many as 15 gay bars, acrdg to a recent had nam like the Mug, the Happy Hour, DOK Wt, the Upbeat, Rumour Hazz and the Knotty Keg. “Everybody knows when you’re gog to Garn Grove and you’re gay [that] you’re gog to the Frat Hoe bee that’s the only thg open, gay, Garn Grove, ” said Monique Chantel Dupre, a drag performer featured the “Frat Hoe” documentary, which bowed at the recent Newport Beach Film Ftival.

“I’d known for a while that there was a gay bar a few blocks om my hoe, and I thought was jt so bizarre that there was a church next to , ” she said.

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But, eventually they stopped g at all after she kept rejectg their promised her father that she’d “keep open and keep gay.

“Back the day, [LGBTQ people] didn’t have nowhere to go, so this was a safe place and a safe haven for the gay people to e, ” Heier said. ”The days, their ctomers tend to be majory Lato men, and while they ed to be open 365 days of the year, they’re now closed Tudays bee there isn’t enough apps, social media, latg real tate sts sparked by gentrifitn, and creasg acceptance of the gay muny are leadg to ls patronage of tradnal gay bars, which mt also pete wh the predomantly straight bars’ gay night said that if wasn’t for the fact that she owns the buildg, the Frat Hoe might not still be bs.

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“We stay open maly bee of our longevy and the history that we have, ” Heier few tradnal gay bars around the unty that rema have bee, many ways, isolated pockets of the LGBTQ muny, acrdg to Lus Hilrbrand, a film and media studi profsor at UC Irve. ’s gay bar scene, told matchbooks »Sarah Nguyen, who was named Ms. Orange County Gay Pri last year, said she didn’t know her lol history until she began workg across the unty le — at the LGBTQ Center Long Beach.

Orange County Gay Pri last year and is popularly known as “Johnny Wt Street, ” after Laguna Beach’s famoly gay beach — said he didn’t learn about this queer history until he was olr. “It’s kd of sad bee you hear the legendary stori of Garn Grove beg as gay as Long Beach and...

Jonathan Alexanr, a UCI English profsor, said that historilly bars were one of the few plac that gay and lbian people uld meet public spac.