As equaly and acceptance for the LGBTQ muny slowly be the norm across the natn, a betiful by-product has emerged: There are more plac than ever for people of all sexual preferenc to e together and party. Here L.A., queer nightlife has long been a primary source for joyful revelry and creative exprsn, and promoters and owners alike keep evolvg, growg and "(gay)me-changg" beyond social stereotyp, wh new hot spots new parts of town.
Contents:
- GAY OLD TIME
- WHERE TO HAVE A GAY OL' TIME LOS ANGEL: A NIGHTLIFE GUI
- I HAD A GAY OLD TIME
- OUTRAGE OVER THE FLTSTON “GAY OLD TIME”
- A NIGHT OUT: YOU'LL HAVE A GAY OL' TIME!
- GAY OLD TIME ED MEANG
- IT’LL BE A GAY OL’ TIME THEATERS ACROSS METRO DETRO
GAY OLD TIME
* gay ol time *
A., queer nightlife has long been a primary source for joyful revelry and creative exprsn, and promoters and owners alike keep evolvg, growg and “(gay)me-changg” beyond social stereotyp, wh new hot spots new parts of town. The Chapel: Built to be “the bt gay EDM party every night, ” the Chapel at the Abbey is a ltle more seclud and smaller than the Abbey proper, which is adjacent but not nnected to. (Gay)me-changer: The sheer unapologetic gayns (and dare I say ratchet-ns) of the bar: water gun petns on the junk of the go-go dancers, gay porn on the TV screens, even the name of the bar (which stands for Fucked Up Beyond All Regnn) or theme nights like Unload Friday or Thursday's B.
Gym Sportsbar: If you walk by most gay bars WeHo when RuPl's Drag Race is on, the way the crowd shouts and cheers at the televisn may seem more like they're watchg a sportg event. Self-scribed as “the first and only gay sports bar Los Angel, ” the bar ters not only to sports lovers but also to players — the bar has played host to after or viewg parti for many gay leagu. (Gay)me-changer: The hottt night has gotta be Tuday's “The Hole, ” Dirty Burty's glor boy bash wh hard-body go-go guys grdg their undi and DJs spng groove-driven mix that make you want to jo them.
WHERE TO HAVE A GAY OL' TIME LOS ANGEL: A NIGHTLIFE GUI
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(Gay)me-changer: The Birdge set up s own Beach Club om May through September, and a ee membership rd gets you accs to a closed-off area of the beach specifilly for the Birdge.
(Gay)me-changer: The tortelli dish featur a hoe-ma butter/cream/Parman sce that will make your taste buds dance as ftively as you will when the bar turns om rtrant to club. Precct: The biggt gay club downtown, Precct attracts a loyal and eclectic crowd that packs the dance floor, which offers rotatg them every Saturday, such as Bear and Lat Night. (Gay)me-changer: Every Friday night, drag legends the Boulet Brothers host their own night lled Queen Kong, which featur some of the most popular and excg drag talent around.
I HAD A GAY OLD TIME
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Club Cobra: Billed onle as “the bt Lat gay bar Los Angel, ” Club Cobra is the clost thg there is to a tradnal gay club the San Fernando Valley (wh a Lat twist, of urse).
OUTRAGE OVER THE FLTSTON “GAY OLD TIME”
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(Gay)me-changer: Club Cobra may be a Lat club, but 's also very clive, pecially for the Trans muny: all of the female bartenrs are trans and their Thursday night party is lled “Trans Fix. Bear ntts, “Tightwad Tudays” (cheap men, cheap beer) and “Meatrack, ” bed wh the r (neon genals on the wall and gay porn on the screens) keep thgs pure here or un-pure, as the se may be.
In addn to the above LGBTQ-driven lol, Los Angel offers untls queer and queer-iendly gathergs at venu that aren't specifilly gay but get taken over on certa nights by promoters and DJs wh fierce followgs. A Southern Pacific Railroad 1937 documentary "Daylightg the Padr'" about s luxury passenger ler rolls around California, n be viewed here and has a part at 17:36 the vio where the announcer says, "Y, all this is San Francis, a gay metropolis of fashnable shops, fe hotels.
" Fun Balloon Land: The narrator durg the 1965 Philalphia Thanksgivg Day Para the word "gay" to mean happy, and apparently has no other synonyms for bee she about 7 tim the 35 mute segment. In Charlie Chapl's Morn Tim (1936) Tramp's girliend wr on his sleeve the lyrics of a song he's supposed to sg and starts as "A pretty girl and a gay old man flirted on the boulevard.
A NIGHT OUT: YOU'LL HAVE A GAY OL' TIME!
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When the archaeologists fd that Imhotep went unwillgly to his ath and speculate he may have been executed for treason, one of them says "Maybe he got too gay wh the vtal virgs the temple. ") In the Danish film Operatn Lovebirds, Fre lls the gun Schmidt giv him a "bøsse", a Danish term for gun that is today almost exclively ed s other meang, a gay man.
" This one is pecially amg once you know that the e of the word "gay" to mean "homosexual" origated theatril slang well before migrated to the mastream vernacular.
GAY OLD TIME ED MEANG
From a bumpg bar Bloomgton, Indiana to gay days and nights the Florida's theme park pal, wele to the Uned Stat of queer Ameri. * gay ol time *
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IT’LL BE A GAY OL’ TIME THEATERS ACROSS METRO DETRO
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This week, public outcry reached afeng levels as the classic ABC animated s The Fltston was lambasted for s perceived tolerance and sensivy towards homosexuals and their liftyl. “For over a half century now, The Fltston theme song has valierly touted that when you’re wh them you will have a ‘gay old time, '” CNN anchor Anrson Cooper said on the air Tuday.