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class="articleContent__Wrapper-sc-1rqfqf-0 bDtujo le-mon__article-ntent pi-ntent le-mon__gutenberg-ntent le-mon__gutenberg-ntent--articleContent" id="pi"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 1920w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 1080w, 180w, 564w, 615w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-647615" alt="" src=" height="133" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/></a></figure><p>LITTLE VILLAGE — Ltle Village’s Wt 26th Street is known as one of the cy’s most powerful enomic eng, wh hundreds of small, fay-n bs.</p><p>But many may not know La Cueva, 4153 W. 26th St., which ss on the wt end of the street and may be the untry’s olst Lato drag bar.</p><p>La Cueva looks like any other bar om the outsi by day. But the club stag two shows a night Thursdays through Sundays where a crew of performers elaborate stum imate some of the most proment ins Spanish and Lato culture, like Juan Gabriel, Lupa D’Als and others. </p><p>There’s dancg, there’s mic, and most importantly, a voted crowd enjoyg their favore songs by today’s and yterday’s stars. Portras of prev performers hang si along the east wall of the club, payg homage to La Cueva’s history. </p><p>The club’s diverse dience sets apart om other gay clubs the Chigo, said Gabriel Chavez, a longtime La Cueva performer.</p><p>“It’s for every type of person, not exclively gay,” Chavez said. “Many of the regular guts are married upl who jt love the show.” </p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 4924w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 508w, 1015w, 2029w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-658371" alt="" src=" height="681" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Gonzalo Guzman for Block Club Chigo.</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Fatima Galdo performs at La Cueva Ltle Village on July 1st, 2023. </figptn></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 6048w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 508w, 1015w, 2029w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-658378" alt="" src=" height="681" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Gonzalo Guzman for Block Club Chigo.</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Franc D’Als gets ready for the midnight show at La Cueva Ltle Village. </figptn></figure><h2>‘It’s Even Famo In Mexi’</h2><p>La Cueva’s legacy was borne out of another Ltle Village club, El Infierno, a gay club at 28th and Sacramento, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">acrdg to a 2006 Rear profile on Ketty Teanga</a>, then La Cueva’s mistrs of ceremoni.</p><p>Teanga, who’d learned drag as a teen, uldn’t fd a drag show where she uld perform any of Chigo’s Lato nightclubs at the time, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">she told the Rear</a>.</p><p>Then the early ’80s, Teanga beiend El Infierno’s owner, Juan Alanis, and persuad him to let her host a drag show there. Teanga’s show was so popular that Alanis moved to another buildg he owned — La Cueva. </p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px" srcSet=" 3349w, 200w, 768w, 681w, 1022w, 1363w, 1080w, 32w, 564w, 615w, 51w, 112w, 225w, 449w, 898w, 150w, 299w, 599w, 1198w, 133w, 266w, 532w, 1065w, 399w, 798w, 1597w, 1366w" class="wp-image-658374" alt="" src=" height="1024" width="681" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Gonzalo Guzman for Block Club Chigo.</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Paola Rs performs at La Cueva Ltle Village on July 1st, 2023. </figptn></figure><p>The club has been a haven for LGBTQ+ Lato performers and patrons sce then, hostg drag shows and other performanc even through tim when was mon for queer people to be verbally or physilly asslted around the neighborhood, performers said.</p><p>Navigatg the historilly Lato neighborhood — where toxic masculy and homophobia has a history — was a challenge, said Fatima Galdo, who’s been performg at La Cueva’s shows for nearly 40 years.</p><p>“There were years where was difficult, when we would e walkg and they’d throw ns at , sult , asslt , pull off our shirts,” Galdo said.</p><p>Galdo and Chavez said this area of the Ltle Village ed to see a lot of gang members who would harass them. </p><p>“They robbed a lot out here,” Chavez said. “The new generatn is a lot better.”</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 4502w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 508w, 1015w, 2029w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-658377" alt="" src=" height="681" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Gonzalo Guzman for Block Club Chigo.</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Gabriel performs at La Cueva Ltle Village. </figptn></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 6048w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 508w, 1015w, 2029w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-658375" alt="" src=" height="681" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Gonzalo Guzman for Block Club Chigo.</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Paola Rs performs at La Cueva. </figptn></figure><p>La Cueva also has been the target of protts om lol anizers and rints who blamed the club and s performers for the neighborhood’s stggl wh crime.</p><p>In 2010, longtime Ltle Village activist Rl Mont Jr. led a prott agast the bar, accg sellg alhol to mors, allowg dg alg and enuragg prostutn the neighborhood, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">the Wdy Cy Tim reported at the time</a>.</p><p>Ruben Lechuga, who managed the bar and now is the owner, said at the time the backlash was unwarranted and he worried would force La Cueva to close.</p><p>“They are blamg for prostutn that go on a few blocks away,” <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Lechuga told GapersBlock a 2011 story about the bar</a>. “There are people the neighborhood who try and get signatur to close the place down. I’m worried bee those people don’t know La Cueva. They’ve never been here; they only image what go on.”</p><p>But La Cueva has stood the tt of time — <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">cludg a prolonged, panmic-duced shutdown</a>, performers said. </p><p>Franc D’Als, who has been an entertaer for three s, said Ltle Village has changed for the better by beg more welg and vg of LGBTQ+ ctomers and club workers as the s have gone by. </p><p>“It’s more normal,” D’Als said. “It’s gotten a lot better bee more people e [to the club]. They see there isn’t so much crime outsi and there aren’t many problems. So people have more nfince and they e si. La Cueva … isn’t what people ed to thk, that was some seedy place. The image changed que a lot.”</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 4247w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 508w, 1014w, 2029w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-658384" alt="" src=" height="681" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Gonzalo Guzman for Block Club Chigo.</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">An dience member tips Pa Show durg a performance. </figptn></figure><p>La Cueva’s populary has grown even outsi Chigo, Chavez and others said. They’ve met dience members who have e om Texas or California, all who are eager to vis La Cueva.</p><p>“I swear to you, ’s even famo Mexi,” he said. </p><p>Spac like La Cueva are so important bee they offer a healthy outlet of fun for everyone, Galdo said. People n be whoever they want to be: “The flower out,” she says. </p><p>D’Als said there are those who have prenceived ia of what La Cueva, or other gay bars, might be like, but she enurag people to e see for themselv and make up their own mds.</p><p>“La Cueva is different than what people may thk,” she said. “We’re vg them to e and disver for themselv what really go on La Cueva. How ’s a magil world.” </p><p><strong>More photos om a recent show:</strong></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 4556w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 508w, 1015w, 2029w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-658380" alt="" src=" height="681" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Gonzalo Guzman for Block Club Chigo.</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Franc D’Als holds her tips followg a performance. </figptn></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 5355w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 508w, 1014w, 2029w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-658383" alt="" src=" height="681" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Gonzalo Guzman for Block Club Chigo.</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">An dience members rerds Pa Show’s performance. </figptn></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 6048w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 508w, 1015w, 2029w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-658368" alt="" src=" height="681" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Gonzalo Guzman for Block Club Chigo.</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Fatima Galdo do a stume reveal. </figptn></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 4694w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 508w, 1015w, 2029w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-658382" alt="" src=" height="681" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Gonzalo Guzman for Block Club Chigo.</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Pa Show the drsg room. </figptn></figure><p class="pi__hi-for-payg"><em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Subscribe to Block Club Chigo</a>, an pennt, 501(c)(3), journalist-n newsroom. 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