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Contents:

• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• LBIANS CLAIM STRAIGHT WOMEN ARE DOMATG GAY BARS VIRAL VIO
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Everyone knows that change n be cremental, but the phrase “gay bar” sounds cliché anymore.

The cy’s nizens talk about often: Nightlife tablishments, be they storied or new on the scen, have seen their rpective clientel grow to be clive of not jt gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr lols and visors recently.

It’s not overtly “gay! 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.

LBIANS CLAIM STRAIGHT WOMEN ARE DOMATG GAY BARS VIRAL VIO

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. 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.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

The trend of bars gog dark isn’t unique to lbian, gay or other LGBTQ+ tablishments.

As bt anyone n tell, the number of lbian bars peaked the 1980s, toppg out around 200 bs, acrdg to Greggor Mattson, an associate profsor of soclogy at Oberl College & Conservatory, who rearch LGBTQ+ muni, gay bars, equaly, and gentrifitn. But the most mon reasons ced by the operators of the dozen lbian bars terviewed by CNN Bs are the wage gap and fancial dispari of queer women and genr mori, as pared to their straight and cisgenr unterparts, as well as gay men. LBQ women tend to have lower e, lower spendg abily, and higher rat of poverty than gay men, straight women and straight men, said Bian Wilson, a senr scholar of public policy at The Williams Instute at the UCLA School of Law.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

“We always say, ‘gay is so rilient, ’ … for the most part, ” said Moe Girton, owner of lbian-centric bar Gossip Grill San Diego, California. Gossip Grill saw a sal cle of 80% durg the panmic; however, gay club unterpart Urban Mo’s saw sal cle 40%. In New Orleans, a group of queer activists created a mil, Alleged Lbian Activi, spired by speakg wh olr gay and lbian bar patrons about their experienc dyke bars s before.

“Gay men have always had more money to spend, and often, a more public-facg social life—the lbian potluck tradn was real, ” Brown-Saraco says. “Pl, LBQT dividuals raise kids greater numbers than gay men, which impacts their availabily for nighttime bar socializg. Gay and lbian bars that ntue to thrive are on that are open and welg to people of all genrs and sexual orientatns.

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.

He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton.

“I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.