Goodbye Big Gay Starbucks Wt Hollywood – Thank You for the Memori - WEHO TIMES Wt Hollywood News, Nightlife and Events

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• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• GOODBYE BIG GAY STARBUCKS WT HOLLYWOOD – THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORI
• THE BT GAY BARS WT HOLLYWOOD

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

The year is 1981, and if you were a homosexual man (mostly whe) lookg for some fun the unrporated part of Los Angel County unofficially known as Wt Hollywood, then you had plenty to choose om a long list of nightlife gay bars, diss, rtrants, bathho and gay-owned bs terg to the gay-gay-gay! The image you see above, shared by WeHo history buff Mark Donnell, shows a double spread ad taken om a Data Boy Magaze 1981, which was one of the gay rags that uld be found lol WeHo bs stacked next to an issue of Frontiers Magaze.

GOODBYE BIG GAY STARBUCKS WT HOLLYWOOD – THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORI

Mother Lo was upgrad and looks very different than s origal 80s versn, but for the most part has managed to stay Mother were the gay-owned clothg stor, rtrants and retail spac:The Sports Locker was suated at 8853 Santa Moni Boulevard. That retail space is the current home to Block Party WeHo, known for phg overly priced slut gear and tacky rabow gay apparel unr the guise that is the biggt gay store the world.

Clothg store was geared towards gay men (mostly whe which was a sign of the tim). It was a gay entertament magaze lnched 1968 by Data-Boy Instant Prs, an early puterized prtg service owned by Sl “Fat Shirley” Suon. 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.

THE BT GAY BARS WT HOLLYWOOD

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.

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). 's first gay sports bar, Gym, first opened 2009.

Open for over 25 years, unpretent gay sports bar Tnks also boasts an outdoor pat. A few highlights clu openly gay executive chef St Jon' Mederranean-fluenced vegan rtrant Crossroads Kchen, the stunng rooftop seafood venue Catch L.

The latt blow to Wt Hollywood’s Boystown gay nightlife district is the closg of Rage, the gay bar at the northwt rner of Santa Moni Boulevard and San Vicente. Jacqui Squatriglia and Chris Barn, owner of Flamg Saddl, the gay Country / Wtern bar at 8811 Santa Moni Boulevard at Larrabee, announced s closg on Aug. Gym Bar, another popular gay bar, loted at 8737 Santa Moni Blvd., announced s permanent closg July, wh s owners sayg that the property owner, Elias Shokrian of Calex LLC Beverly Hill, had been unoperative negotiatg a way for them to pay their rent.

In 2014, Michel Thomas, who had worked as a promoter of events at Rage for 11 years, bought the bs om Maghame and Sattari, makg him the first gay man to own the gay bar.

Thomas had lnched events such as GAMeboi, which tered to gay Asian men, and Rage also hosted special nights for other ethnic groups. Thomas boasted that his acquisn meant that Rage would be gay-owned and -operated. ” “I have a problem wh a straight tablishment tryg to make money off of gay people, ” he said an terview wh WEHOville.