Wt Hollywood’s Historic Gay Nightclub the Abbey Is Up for Sale - Eater LA

Contents:

• THE BT GAY BARS MEXI CY
• “SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS!” GAY TIJUANA
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• GAY CANCUN
• THE BT GAY BARS MEXI CY

THE BT GAY BARS MEXI CY

The untamed nightlife of CDMX is legendary and extends (of urse) to the bt gay bars Mexi Cy. In this list of unmissable gay clubs, you'll fd everythg om the classic Tom’s Leather Bar – a darg and exhibnist optn sce the 1990s – and Zona Rosa’s preppy club, Kky, plete wh gogos and strippers to the classic La Purísima, named on multiple ocsns as one of the lol LGBTQ muny’s favoure hangouts and even a uple spots where straight folks are wele too. Woven to gay Tijuana, on the razor’s edge of the red-light district to the north, is a wars of that threat and others, and an entrenched sire to fet them.

As the rabowre would suggt, there are plenty of gay bars Tijuana. The cy do, however, have a rich history of gay male mobilizatn, chronicled a 2019 dissertatn by social scientist Jse Anguiano of Wtern Michigan Universy.

“SHOTS, SHOTS, SHOTS!” GAY TIJUANA

The movement began the 1970s; Plaza Santa Cecilia, today a vibrant gay statn, served as one of the earlit meetg s for the cy’s gay male liberatn groups. Anguiano wr about Tijuana’s first official Pri march 1995, after a hateful rponse to an unofficial march over a earlier: In 1983, spectators hurled eggs and sults om the siwalks at a group of 30 gay men marchg for their rights. But wh metro San Diego and s flourishg queer life ls than a half-hour to the north—the Hillcrt neighborhood, which is the cy's thrivg gay district, is home to two lbian bars—Tijuana n still feel like ’s laggg behd.

The scene today reflects gay Tijuana’s male-centric history. On the other si of the plaza, Avenida Revolución, the gay artery of downtown, puls to life wh electro beats om the dance floors of Premier Men’s Club and Rubiks. Any gay bars that they might vis were centered around cis men.

” In the years sce, she’s noticed margal progrs, as the neighborhood embrac new spac that are “more iendly for trans, gay, lbian and queer people.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

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California's Bar, an atmospheric Mexin nta, is one of the bt-known gay bars town. Club YeYe is a gay show/vio bar wh pop mic and morn electronic beats. In s day the most famo gay club town, 7 Ss still has good hoe, electronic and pop mic wh DJs, two dance floors and a dark room.

Crowd is both gay and. The Equilibr is a popular gay dance club wh DJs, drag shows, strippers, drk specials and special theme nights. Platum Distheque is one of the largt gay clubs town wh three separate areas and a terrace for var kds of mic, drag shows and events such as bety...

WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE

Fans wept when Roosterfish, the Wtsi’s olst gay bar, closed 2016. 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. The origal Downtown gay bar, Jalis is a dive bar that ters to the Latx and Mexin LGBTQ muny.

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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.

THE BT GAY BARS MEXI CY

And Yenia Gaan’s Saturday “Taboo Nights” was billed as the bt mil show downtown Los New Jalis Bar weled people jt as they were — homosexual, transgeneros, s papel, drsed as vaqueros and old enough to feel out of place dancg to hoe mic Wt Hollywood. “Everyone there is like your gay uncle.

’s only queer-foced ffee shop; Rage nightclub Wt Hollywood; San Francis’s olst gay bar, The Stud; Ltle Jim’s, the send-olst gay bar cle of gay bars started well before the panmic, part bee creased acceptance of queer people has lsened the need for bars as plac of refuge. Mattson said bars servg workg-class queer people are more likely to be phed out by gentrifitn than those terg to middle-class and whe gay men, he said.

Historilly, transgenr and nonwhe people were unwele many gay bars that served whe men, Mattson said. “The irony is that jt as gay bars have bee more clive, they’re startg to go away, ” he owners of Jalis are stgglg to ensure their closure isn’t Rosa Garcia, 53, started as a bartenr there 1992. Garcia, outgog and iendly, often threw back a beer or two wh patrons as they exchanged stori and the time, there was only one gay bar downtown: The Sre.

So when a few gay men started g , she weled them. Then-Print Clton unveiled the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which prevented service members om beg openly gay, lbian or bisexual whout the threat of beg discharged. (Steven Bernal) “We have to regnize that this is a gay bar, ” Hernanz told his wife.

Every queer person n tell you the first time they went to a gay bar.

“Gay bars have survived polil opprsn, the AIDS crisis, prev recsns, so they will survive this panmic, ” he said. “Gay bars have survived polil opprsn, the AIDS crisis, prev recsns, so they will survive this panmic.

C., has one of the gayt club scen the state. Hip Hop Clubs Mexi CyGay and LGBT Clubs Mexi CyTechno Clubs Mexi CyAnd fally: Our Complete Gui to Mexi Cy’s Nightlife. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.

In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. ” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year.

Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.