After 15 months of pandemic restrictions that have kept Los Angeles’ gay bars partly or completely closed, nightlife owners like The Abbey founder and CEO David Cooley are finally seeing the …
“It’s almost like burn your bra,” he adds of the lifted mask mandates on the horizon. “People want to burn their mask and hear our DJs and start dancing and looking at our go-go girls and go-go guys. They want to party.”
When patrons do return to West Hollywood this Pride month, though, it will look quite different from years past. Flaming Saddles, Gold Coast, Rage and Gym Bar were all victims of the pandemic , leaving WeHo’s Santa Monica Boulevard strip without some of its signature clubs. That’s on top of the fact that L.A. has been without a lesbian bar in the entire county since Van Nuys’ Oxwood Inn closed in 2017.
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