“I’d known for a while that there was a gay bar a few blocks from my house, and I thought it was just so bizarre that there was a church next to it,” she said. “Everybody knows when you’re going to Garden Grove and you’re gay you’re going to the Frat House because that’s the only thing open, gay, in Garden Grove,” said Monique Chantel Dupre, a drag performer featured in the “Frat House” documentary, which bowed at the recent Newport Beach Film Festival.ĭocumentarian Nancy Nguyen stumbled into her subject matter. There was also Climax, Proud Mary, Stage Door, the Old Bavarian Inn, DJ’s Discotheque, Tex’s Corner, Tiki Hut and the Gasp. They had names like the Mug, the Happy Hour, DOK West, the Upbeat, Rumour Hazzit and the Knotty Keg. Though historically conservative Garden Grove - as recently as last Tuesday the City Council rejected a motion to fly a rainbow flag at City Hall, but agreed to light up a clock tower in the same colors for Pride Month - doesn’t have the welcoming reputation of, say, Laguna Beach, Long Beach or Santa Ana, it once boasted as many as 15 gay bars, according to a recent documentary.
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