Redline gay bar downtown la

What happened to all the gay bars? Those heady days of flirting across the dancefloor, stepping in time to Kylie?

DTLA gay bar Redline faces nearly $500,000 in COVID debt

Dating apps are the new norm and the gays were there first of coursebut many American and European cultural capitals are losing their LGBTQ venues. Traditionally, the gay scene is an indicator of a buzzing nightlife, good music and style, so this is a loss for all of us.

But not in Downtown Los Angeles. Cue music…. Go to one, go to all five! The East Bar. Latinos collide with Downtown hipsters, glued together with superb music. If the art of conversation and cocktails are more your thing bar, actually chatting someone up? The cool and modern Bar Mattachine, is perfect.

Many cultural gems in LA must be discovered through perseverance; you need to open a door or two to find the magic. Popular with the metrosexuals and in a town downtown ride sharing is the norm, at last folks in LA can have a drink! Downtown Los Angeles fell off the map for several decades but always had an edgy gay scene, going back the days when Ramon Novarro and redlined stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood cruised the bars of Main Street.

The recent conversion of many of the historic buildings into loft living has created street life in a city where nobody walks. Redline leads the way as the nightspot to the progressive, artsy, techies that live around it. Gay I redline bottomless mimosas? The owners live in the same building, so you get a laid back, local bar feel with great sounds and no need to schlep over to WeHo.

This Downtown institution has been around since and is on the right side of kitsch! Tiki themed cocktails and the coolest kids on the block mingle with a metrosexual, vintage-loving crowd. With excellent service, this uniquely Los Angeles experience is like walking onto a movie set, they even have Hawaiian dancers on a Saturday night.

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