THE 10 BEST Wt Hollywood Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

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•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THE 10 BEST WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WT HOLLYWOOD
• THE ABBEY, THE LEGENDARY WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR, IS FOR SALE
• WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
• THE 10 BEST WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS WT HOLLYWOOD
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

 CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

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.

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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.

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Much like the Castro to San Francis or Boystown to Chigo, this statn, clared an official cy 1984 wh a populatn of jt over 36, 000 as of 2020, is historilly known as one of the untry's most proment and still thrivg "gayborhoods, " wh many inic and endurg LGBTQ nightlife spots along wh recent addns.

Instantly regnizable thanks to artist Chris Burn's Instagram-ready outdoor "Urban Light" streetlamp stallatn, The Los Angel County Mm of Art (LACMA) is the wt ast's largt art mm and bis s ep permanent llectn featur cuttg edge, novative, and multimedia tourg exhibns: openly gay Black artist Keh Wiley's inic portra of Barack Obama and Amy Sherald's Michelle Obama will be on display om November 5, 2021 until January 2, 2022. A WeHo landmark, Circ of Books closed 2019—a Netflix documentary chronicl s storied and very LGBTQ past—but drag queen and gay porn film director Chi Chi LaRue revived the space as Chi Chi LaRue's Circ 2020 as a lorful, upmarket store that clus adult goods, accsori, and well-curated selectns of ffee-table tom and lol art.

Hollywood skre gu to the stars sce the 1970s (clients have clud Barbra Streisand, Ellen DeGener, Cher, Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Elton John, David Bowie, and Kylie Mogue), the Denmark-born, openly gay Ole Henriksen opened a namake WeHo Spa off Sunset Boulevard 1998, and remas a favore, discreet, zy oasis for sk and body pamperg treatments wh his excellent le of products today.

THE ABBEY, THE LEGENDARY WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR, IS FOR SALE

For dancg, visors n look forward to a brand new Santa Moni Boulevard gay megaclub, reportedly, the USA's largt, to open the space formerly occupied by 37-year-old dance club Rage, which closed permanently September 2020.

Owner Lance Bass, the former N'Sync member, is also behd the gay sports bar and rtrant Roc's WeHo, which opened 2019 and boasts an illtrated and artifact-filled wall pictg the timele of LGBTQ history on the Wt Coast (a llaboratn wh USC Librari' ONE Archiv Foundatn). A few highlights clu openly gay executive chef St Jon' Mederranean-fluenced vegan rtrant Crossroads Kchen, the stunng rooftop seafood venue Catch L.

It's Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeGroup name:Los Angel Gay Lady Book Club • Los Angel, CAGroup name:Los Angel Gay Lady Book ClubLos Angel, CAFri, Aug 18 · 2:00 AM UTCQueer Csh @ Senr One LAXGroup name:Queer Csh (LA) • Los Angel, CAGroup name:Queer Csh (LA)Los Angel, CAOnle EventFri, Jul 28 · 11:00 PM UTCEssential Lbian Relatnship Skills: Masterclass + WorkshopGroup name:Consc Lbian - Queer Datg and Love San Diego • San Diego, CAGroup name:Consc Lbian - Queer Datg and Love San DiegoSan Diego, CAOnle EventFri, Aug 11 · 11:00 PM UTCLbian Datg & Love for HSPs (And Those Who Love Them) Masterclass + WorkshopGroup name:Consc Lbian - Queer Datg and Love San Diego • San Diego, CAGroup name:Consc Lbian - Queer Datg and Love San DiegoSan Diego, CAOnle EventFri, Jul 28 · 2:00 AM UTCSpirual LGBTQs and Beyond: A Course Miracl (ACIM - Onle Study Group)Group name:Spirual LGBTQs and Beyond! The Cy of Wt Hollywood and s Lbian and Gay Advisory Board and Transgenr Advisory Board will regnize Lbian and Queer Women Visibily Week wh a week-long celebratn begng Monday, April 25, 2022.

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“As var stat enact ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bans, I’m proud that here Wt Hollywood we not only say ‘gay’ loudly but we say proudly! For more rmatn about the Cy of Wt Hollywood’s Lbian and Queer Women Visibily Week or the Cy’s Lbian and Gay Advisory Board or s Transgenr Advisory Board, please ntact Moya Márquez, the Cy of Wt Hollywood’s Communy Programs Coordator, at or at (323) 848-6574.

12 plac sorted by traveler favorGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissWhat travelers are saygHad to go and s beneath the portra of Elizabeth Taylor one of LA's classic gay bars. Tripadvisor performs checks on KMona1, 009 ntributnsWh all the other alleged gay bars failg this would have to be the bt and last Wt Hollywood Drks are good and at reasonable pric Wrten May 19, 2019This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Jimmy's Backyard, a short-lived speakeasy tucked away on Cosmo Street Hollywood, opened 1929 and was one of LA's first openly gay bars.

Durg the Prohibn era, speakeasi beme a popular avenue for gay-d the “Pansy Craze” between the late 1920s and early 1930s, drag shows (before they had that name) were gag unrground populary. Harassment durg the Deprsn and beyondIt wasn’t jt booze that uld get you arrted durg prohibn — gay spac were also illegal. “The LAPD was jt mercils their raids of gay bars, ” acrdg to Lillian Farman, LGBTQ historian and a -thor of the book “Gay L.

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Government officials began to view the populary of “impersonator” (drag) revu — and by extensn the visibly gay muny — as part of what plunged the cy to bad enomic tim, acrdg to historil someone was nvicted of “masqueradg” (drsg drag), they uld be charged a fe or required to serve a 10-day jail stt 1930. Lbians and gay men flocked there to fd nnectn, live more openly and be the film the silent film era, one of s hight paid actrs, Alla Nazimova, beme a bisexual in by turng a hotel to a sapphic hub.

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His younger years and owned several gay bars, created yearly addrs books (now known as gay guis) to talog them all — cludg Wt Hollywood. Known then as Gay Pri Para, marchers on June 28 walked solidary wh simultaneo march other ci to mark the Stonewall Uprisg of 1969. The LAPD chief didn’t hate to remd people that beg gay was still illegal, and the police missn piled on extra perm sts to the pot where the para almost didn’t missn thought the march would bee vlent, so they ially required bonds totalg $1.

The upsle clothg spot, which opened around the early 1960s, largely fed popular gay men’s fashn, wh see-through mh outfs and tight shirts.