Gay bars silverlake los angeles

There's the glitz and the expense of West HollywoodL. Then there's the important and well-established gayborhoods in Long Beach and the valley. Then there is perhaps the most historic gayborhood: Silver Lake. Weekly put together a guide on how to have a great gay Friday or Saturday night out in Silver Lake.

Before we dig into recommendations around LGBTQ nightlife in Silver Lake today, we first must acknowledge and discuss the neighborhood's historic significance. At midnight on New Year's Daytwo and a half years before the Stonewall Riots in New York City, plainclothes police officers had infiltrated the bar, watching same-sex couples kiss and embrace to welcome the New Year.

They beat the LGBTQ patrons and arrested 14 people, charging them with lewd conduct for same-sex kissing. On February 11,they publicly protested the police raid outside of the bar, something rare for the time. The size of the protest was even more rare. Predating Stonewall, the Black Cat raid and protest were significant steps forward in the gay rights movement and laid the groundwork for the events at Stonewall two years later.

In some way, it got them angrier and angrier when they heard what happened somewhere else, it started inspiring that thing where [they were] finally like, 'I don't give a shit, Gay going to fight back,' which is what happened at Stonewall. While many consider Stonewall to be the birth of the gay rights movement, Black Cat laid the groundwork for it to occur, so one could argue that the true birth of the national gay rights movement began right here in Silver Lake.

Though it ran as Le Barcito for several years catering to a gay Latino clientele and hosting legendary queer fetish night Club Fucknew owners who took over in returned the Black Cat Tavern to its original name. It's mostly straight a hipster hub but it silverlake gay-friendly, and it's worth visiting to see photos of the events displayed inside.

Keeping the historic significance of Silver Lake to the LGBTQ community in mind, the first stop on our gay night out in the neighborhood is for some dinner at 33 Taps. The first 33 Taps opened in Hollywood in but its Silver Lake counterpart, which first opened inis different. While the Hollywood location is tourist-driven and bigger, the Silver Lake restaurant has more of los neighborhood feel.

We are a beer and sports bar, but we have a very big gay clientele and we're gay-owned and a lot of our staff is angeles. While sports bar and gay don't often go together, many of us do enjoy sports! And for those that don't, the restaurant hosts a very successful drag bingo bar that coincides with a RuPaul's Drag Race viewing party.

We make all of our food in house, nothing's frozen. Highlights include buffalo cauliflower, any of the wings and, of course, the burgers. Vegan customers will like the Impossible taco salad or Impossible burger.

The Black Cat | Silver Lake

Aside from the drag night, 33 Taps also hosts showtunes karaoke every week, trivia twice a week and brunch on the weekends. And even though it only offers beer and wine right now, it plans to start serving hard liquor this summer. After our bellies were full from food, we made way to our second stop of the night: Eagle L.

Much like the community itself, Eagle L. It first opened as a gay bar called the Shed in before it became the Outcast from tothen Gauntlet II from to before opening as Eagle LA in all were gay bars. Eagle L.