Breathg life back to Laguna Beach’s gay bar scene – Orange County Register

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• GAY ORANGE COUNTY TRAVEL GUI
• THE FRAT HOE IS THE LAST GAY BAR STANDG GARN GROVE
• GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS ORANGE COUNTY
• GAY LOS ANGEL

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

THE FRAT HOE IS THE LAST GAY BAR STANDG GARN GROVE

The Gay Scene Orange County.

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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.