To its credit though, the Abbey famously announced in 2012 that it would ban bachelorette parties until marriage equality was achieved, which helped to shore up its gay street cred among some of the faithful who felt it had overextended itself in its efforts to be hetero-friendly. Fiesta Cantina (0.4m) Plaza (2.2m) Tempo (4m) Noa Noa Place (10.3m) IX Tapa Cantina (13.9m) Club Chico (14. In fact 40 percent of its residents identify as gay, making WeHo the gayest. If there’s a downside to the Abbey it’s actually the bar’s success: Not so very long ago, it was the nucleus of gay life in West Hollywood, but as its popularity has grown, increasingly the crowd-particularly at night-seems to be made up of tourists. West Hollywood Gay latin bars and clubs by distance. Gay Los Angeles bars, clubs, parties, hotels, saunas, massages and more.
The drinks at this West Hollywood stalwart are notoriously strong (albeit pricey) and the upscale, Gothic-meets-the-Mediterranean indoor/outdoor spaces, plentiful cabanas and hunky bartenders are all aesthetically satisfying. The Abbey is annually voted one of the world’s best gay bars, which explains the long lines on the weekends to get into this once-humble coffee house-which now boasts four full bars and five times the amount of real estate it originally occupied.
