The Abbey, the Legendary Wt Hollywood Gay Bar, Is For Sale

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The venue, which first opened as a ffee shop 1991, is one of the foremost gay bars Los Angel.

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A HISTORY OF L.A.’S GAY BAR SCENE, TOLD MATCHBOOKS

A survey of 200 matchbooks om a bygone era of L.A.'s gay bar scene at the downtown Central Library. * history of gay bars in los angeles *

Gay bars and sex clubs, most of them now closed.

A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S

Back the pre-ter days of the early seventi, LA was flh wh gay bars and nightclubs (assiatn ntu to fell LGBT gatherg plac). Queerty took a look at about a dozen vtage... * history of gay bars in los angeles *

-based queer artist who was a regular at a number of the spots worked briefly as a barback at Cuffs, a major gay hangout of the recent “was credibly dark and super cisey, ” Jony rells.

GAY BARS OF LA: THEN AND NOW

The bt gay bar and club optns L.A., om flirty Wt Hollywood stutns to hip Silver Lake alternativ, pl bars Venice and the Valley. * history of gay bars in los angeles *

“As Silver Lake — and the whole landspe of gay Hollywood and the east si — changed so much I always had this ia my head of turng the place back to Cuffs for one night, ” he says. The early ’90s, there were more than a dozen [gay bars] on the east si. ”The closg of many east-si gay bars n be blamed, part, on gentrifitn’s effect on rents.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

It also n be argued that the ongog expansn of jt what queerns n mean uld have ma a segment of gay bars, which thrived a sort of self-intified exclivy, obsolete.

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

“I’m not one of them, ” Jony says, “but a lot of gay men my age and a generatn olr like to talk about the days of male-only spac and what that meant to them. ” Jony is pleased that anyone who intifi as male — trans men, for example — are now more wele at gay bars than they were the past.

WEHO'S INIC GAY BAR AND NIGHTCLUB, THE ABBEY, IS FOR SALE

A third factor the shrkg number of gay bars L.

’s gay bar scene was headier, wilr and perhaps more excgly illic. The monstratn that’s memorated by the plaque stemmed om police raids that took place on New Year’s Eve 1967 at The Black Cat and other gay bars the area.

ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archive | Photo: ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archive. ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archive.

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

Loted on the mp of the Universy of Southern California (USC), the ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archive is the world's largt rearch library dited to honor and archive LGBTQ+ history. The two-story mm serv as a time psule for historic years of queer culture, and also functns as LA's Downtown gay muny center—hostg exhibns, art shows and cematic screengs for both the USC stunt populatn and Los Angel at large. The Mattache Steps | Photo: ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv, Facebook.

In the summer of 1948, gay activist Harry Hay clanstely began a group lled "Bachelors Anonymo" a private Silver Lake rince at 2328 Cove Ave.

By 1950, the llective of men had bee Ameri's first official gay anizatn, the Mattache Society.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* HISTORY OF GAY BARS IN LOS ANGELES

16 Superb Gay Bars Los Angel to Grab a Drk At, Ranked .

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