West Hollywood

West Hollywood is the Los Angeles neighborhood where gay bars, drag stages and late-night dance floors sit close enough to walk between, and Santa Monica Boulevard is the stretch that ties it together. The current crowd-favorite plan is simple: pick a night, pick a bar, see where the sidewalk takes you.

Micky's Weho is the one with a theme for nearly every night. Mondays bring 80s and drag shows, Tuesdays turn into line dancing, Wednesdays mean a dance party and karaoke, and Thursdays through Saturdays lean into latin nights. Friday has happy hour, Saturday adds drag shows, and Sundays wrap up with a dance party and drag brunch, so you can keep the weekend going till the last mimosa.

Hamburger Mary's WeHo is a restaurant, a bar and lounge and a theater under one roof. Tuesday is bingo, Thursday is drag shows, Friday is live entertainment, and Saturday stacks cabaret on top of drag brunch. The Abbey Food & Bar covers a lot of ground too: it's a bar and lounge, a club, a restaurant and a theater in one.

Hi Tops Weho is the easygoing pick, with trivia on Tuesdays and sports bar nights on Thursdays. Beaches Weho and Revolver Video Bar WeHo round things out when you want a classic bar and lounge stop between the bigger nights.

It's a touristy corner, sure, but it's also where generations of queer Angelenos have gone to find their people, and the calendar makes it easy to join them.