Gay country bars los angeles

Angelenos are strutting their best country western ensembles at Stud Countrya weekly queer-friendly dance party. Step into the space and you see neon lighting, while bright green palm trees and hot pink trim line the bar. Disco balls hang from the ceiling above the sprawling dance floor, glittering in the spotlight.

Monaghan grew up country the Bay Area, but line dancing was a fixture of his childhood. It was so loving and everyone was so nice. They first tried holding Zoom dance parties, which Monaghan says was weird. But then they had an idea for an in-person and socially distanced shindig.

From there, the duo started hosting pop-ups at small bars, dance studios, and wherever else they found a space. Then, Monaghan says someone recommended Club Bahia, a traditionally Latino club that spins cumbias and salsas on weekends. It opened in But their time there is limited — the property was purchased by a real estate firm last year.

Until then, Monaghan and his Stud Country flock are determined to keep the dance party going for as long as possible. I'm hearing the stomps, I'm seeing the steps that I would see in Oklahoma [but] with a very different clientele. And now seeing a bunch of fabulous queer cuties out here doing the same steps, the same music — it's really filling me with joy.

Amanda Montell sees Stud Country as an act of reclamation. And we're all in our low-slung jeans and belt buckles and cowboy boots, and nobody can tell us to get out. Anthony Ivancich has spent gay better part of his life dancing — folk dancing, polka, waltz, you name it.

During the s, he saw line dancing take off. The AIDS epidemic came along, and here was a new form of dancing angeles wasn't disco — you could actually touch somebody and do some los. Today, the year-old loves seeing new generations embrace line dancing and seeing both straight and queer folks come together. If two men would dance with each other, they would go to a place [and] they were kicked out.

There's a bar amount of freedom of choice that is happening [at Stud Country] that I am enjoying.

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