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Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s premiere listening session club, Good Luck Vinyl, goes brunch for Pride
Good Luck Vinyl Club—Isaak Navarro's monthly album listening session that takes over The Social List—is taking on Pride this Sunday.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Lazy Dough opening; plus omakase cocktails, pambazos, new farmers markets, more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Culture & Commentary
Amid Trump-blamed loss of title sponsorships, Long Beach Pride 2025 features no headliners, scales down
Long Beach Pride 2025 is facing massive uphill battles with its festival, one of the longest-running Pride festivals in the nation.
Culture & Commentary
Easter Walk Long Beach will continue this weekend, carrying decades of Herstory—and the timing is important
The 28th annual Easter Walk Long Beach will continue its tradition of uplifting those in need, celebrating queerness, and connecting businesses with patrons—all in a pair of heels.
Food & Drink
Long Beach’s BLACK Bar to shutter end of April; sold to owners of Breakfast Bar
BLACK Bar Long Beach will be shuttering at the end of April, marking an end to the women-owned space that has defined the corner of Broadway and Hermosa Avenue for nearly a decade.
Culture & Commentary
Queer-owned retail space Adelita’s Revenge is becoming a hub for Long Beach’s marginalized
From sound baths and full moon healings to Spanish classes and film screenings, Adelita's Revenge is becoming a central hub to better connect marginalized people.
Food & Drink
Longtime DTLB, cold-press staple Rainbow Juices to serve last day on Jan. 30
Rainbow Juices, serving the community for nearly 15 years and hosting its space in Downtown Long Beach for a decade, will be serving its last drop of juice on Jan. 30.
Culture & Commentary
It’s A Drag to Give returns to bring the gayest of holiday cheers to Downtown Long Beach
After a five-year hiatus, the queer-meets-philanthropy celebration that is It's a Drag to Give is back in all its campy, glam, fierce glory come Saturday, Dec. 7.
Culture & Commentary
Rocky Horror Picture Show returns to Art Theatre Long Beach—with very new, very queer shadow cast
After a 30-year presence at The Art Theatre of Long Beach with Midnight Insanity, a new shadow cast—wittily dubbed Bit of Mustard—has relaunched monthly midnight showings of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Culture & Commentary
Dragula watch party, weekly drag show comes to DTLB’s 4th Horseman for all those dark queers’n’drag lovers
A Dragula watch party? At Long Beach's own horrorcore pizzeria, The 4th Horseman? Yes and yes. Long Beach drag misfit Girl Haggard will be...
Events & Festivals
Callin’ all the queers: It’s time for the Big Gay Takeover in Downtown Long Beach
Please, please, the gays are trying to murder us—or, well, they're at least bringing the Big Gay Takeover to Pine Avenue in Downtown Long Beach on Aug. 24 from 4PM to 10PM.
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Watch Me Sports Bar—Long Beach’s first space dedicated to women’s sports—to open July 26
Watch Me Sports Bar (stylized Watch Me!)—which took over the former Playa Amor space earlier this year—will officially open Friday, July 26 at 4PM. And with that opening, brings Long Beach its first space solely dedicated to women's sports.
Food & Drink
Queens on the Queen: Jewels Long Beach brings The Queen Mary its first formal drag show
Jewels Long Beach has never been one to shy away from a challenge: Surely, she's hosted gigs aboard The Queen Mary and surely, she has hosted many a drag shows at clubs, dives, and various dark alleys across Long Beach. But one thing she hasn't done is a formal drag show on the biggest queen in town—and that is all about to change when she hosts the aptly named Queens on the Queen drag show come Monday, June 10 at 6PM.
Culture & Commentary
Pride Month at its tiniest but brightest: Catalina Island Pride returns for third iteration
Catalina Island Pride returns for its third year in a row as the event continues to grow, from 4,000 its first year to over 6,000 last year. The single day event will take place on Saturday, June 15.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach LGBTQ district takes step forward toward fruition—and why that matters
Initially presented as an idea two years ago, the creation of a formally sanctioned Long Beach LGBTQ district along the Broadway Corridor has taken a major step forward, with councilmembers unanimously approving a strategic plan that will guide the City and planners on how to make the district a tangible, explorable space.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Lost: Club Sylvia, North Long Beach’s queer-fully odd, into-the-wee-hours drag bar
In this part of Long Beach Lost, we explore the history of Club Sylvia, nestled at the corner of 61st Street and Cherry Avenue in North Long Beach. It was the headquarters for drag queens—and for good reason.
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: LB Fish Grill, El Torito closing; Happy Cow rebrands; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s best vinyl listening club to host-queer centric session with Madonna’s ‘Erotica’
Long Beach Last Call—the 10-day celebration of our bar culture—is partnering with the Good Luck Vinyl Club for a queer-centric event that will listen to Madonna's controversial 1992 masterpiece, "Erotica."
Food & Drink
Long Beach Food Scene Intel: 4 Shore sign goes up in Naples; ISM launches brunch; more
Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
Culture & Commentary
CSULB’s ‘Drag Show’ exhibit is an ode to the queer community of the ’80s and ’90s—and this is your last chance to see it
'Drag Show,' an exhibit at CSULB's Kleefeld museum, is more than an ode to the queer culture of the 1980s and '90s—it's an outright celebration of resilience.
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A holiday ode to the queer bars of Long Beach’s Gayborhood—and every queer bar in the world
The holidays can be a convoluted emotional bag for those within the queer community—and this is a dedication and reminder that whether surrounded by love or still searching to find some form of it, our bars are more than just bars: They're our churches.
Events & Festivals
Long Beach Pride will return to historical May date come 2024
After a series of community meetings following a lack of expected attendance numbers at this year's awkwardly timed August Pride festival, organizers are returning the celebration to its historical May date.
Culture & Commentary
A gem of queer history lost: Long Beach LGBTQ+ pioneer Bob Crow dies
After a struggle with stage four lung cancer, Long Beach gay pioneer Bob Crow—one of the founding members of Long Beach Pride, Long Beach's largest event minus the Grand Prix—has died at the age of 78.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Pride to have a first of its kind, thanks to Jewels: A stage entirely dedicated to the art of drag—all types of...
In what is thought to be a first of its kind, as the country continues to battle over the art of drag, Long Beach Pride is doubling down with a stage dedicated entirely to drag during its two-day festival.
Culture & Commentary
The appearance of Long Beach butch queer Angie Evans on RuPaul’s Drag Race is much more important than it seems
Queer unity can often be filtered through a rose-tinted lens—but for a show as campy as RuPaul's Drag Race can be, this particular episode featuring a Long Beach business owner seizing her vulnerability opens the door for many future, rich conversations for queers.
Culture & Commentary
After a coordinated homophobic clash, Casita Bookstore in Long Beach continues to thrive by loving everyone
The bookstore's entire aura is about letting kids be seen and represented as they wish to be—an irony considering a group of men coordinated an incident to tell them they were going to hell because a drag queen was reading books to children about empowerment, strength in self-identity, and being an overall good person.
Culture & Commentary
Our city deserves a designated Long Beach LGBTQ district—and it’s more than just the naming of it
The city's proposed LGBTQ+ district is not only a long time in the making from a political perspective, but one in which queer history is intimately attached to a public project like never before in Long Beach.
Culture & Commentary
Drag star Tammie Brown performs for Wilson High students—and makes herstory to do so
She's one of the most influential figures in the art of drag—but she is never too famous or too busy to take a walk in nature with the kids.
Culture & Commentary
Hamburger Mary’s continues push into South with new Dallas location—anti-drag legislation be damned
The reach of Hamburger Mary's is wildly expansive for those who have never left the SoCal bubble: Beyond its three California locations—Long Beach and...
Events & Festivals
Tiny but mighty: Catalina Island Pride returns for second year
Hosting its very first Pride last year, the island community is determined to not only grow this second time around but showing that inclusivity can survive—even on an island.
Events & Festivals
Inaugural Long Beach Proud! festival aims to offer a community alternative for the local queer crowd
The three-day celebration-coinciding with the city's massive Beach Streets event on May 20—will be entirely free, family-friendly, and open to the public.
Culture & Commentary
An ode to the queer bars of Long Beach’s Gayborhood—and every queer bar in the world
The holidays can be a convoluted emotional bag for those within the queer community—and this is a dedication and reminder that whether surrounded by love or still searching to find some form of it, our bars are more than just bars: They're our churches.
