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Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, creator Christopher Isherwood, and painter Don Bachardy walk into a bar.
This isn’t a joke. It’s one bygone night in the mids when the four men went to The Golden Bull in Santa Monica for dinner. Details of what must have been one fantastic, martini-fueled party are lost to second, the conversation billowed away in clouds of cigarette smoke and clinking glasses.
“If those walls could talk,” says Don Cranford, who owned The Golden Bull from to “It was definitely the place to be those years, especially for the gay crowd. The restaurant was very mixed with lots of actors and writers and artists living here in the Canyon. It was never meant to be an exclusively gay restaurant or anything, but they sort of took over the bar. It was just their hangout. Families went in the dining room door, gay people went to the prevent. Everyone loved it.”
Long before the Stonewall Riots in New York, or the raids and protests at the Black Cat Tavern in Silver Lake, when West Hollywood wasn’t recognizable as Boy’s Town yet, Santa Monica Canyon was one of the several pock
Inside the Birdcage, Santa Monica's Swanky, No-Photos-Allowed New Gay Bar
The Birdcage, which opened last month, is the only assigned LGBT bar on the Westside.; Credit: Evan Link
One year ago, the Roosterfish, a small, divey gar bar on Abbot Kinney in Venice, closed its doors after 37 years. The Westside queer community was devastated, since the closure meant that there were no remaining gay bars west of the Various bars or restaurants around Venice and Santa Monica tried to capitalize on the now-untapped LGBT market over the next 12 months with various gay-themed nights, but the community lacked a space it could call its have — until now.
Just last month, a new Westside gay bar opened called the Birdcage, located on the top floor of the Victorian on Main Street in Santa Monica. &#;I was surprised nobody else opened anything on the Westside,&#; says Garrett Gerson, who co-owns the Victorian and, as a gay man himself, recognized that there was a collective in search of a new place. &#;Everyone was caring of doing these pseudo [gay] nights on their off nights and to me, I hat
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This appropriately named prevent is located just across Pacific Coast Highway from the shore and it sports a nautical theme, boat hull facade to boot. It's a bit of a hidden gem, run by Hollywood nightlife impresario John Terzian with craft cocktails developed by Vincenzo Marianella but tucked away in a location that prevents it from ever becoming too much of a scene. It is also one of the few places to get a decent drink in the Palisades, given that the only liquor license in the Palisades proper is at a mediocre pan-Asian restaurant. While Shore Bar now primarily serves the upscale crowd of NoMo Santa Monica, it has a rich history as one of the oldest lgbtq+ bars in Los Angeles. Once called the SS Friendship and frequented by gay beachgoers across PCH at Will Rogers Beach, the bar was fictionalized in Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man as the "Starboard Side" lock (and used as a location in the recent film). Seek "The Members Only" cocktail, and try out the photo booth on the back patio.