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While other establishments catered to the glamorous, fashionable, and occasionally exhausting side of Los Angeles gay nightlife, Gold Coast offered something refreshingly different: an old-fashioned gay dive bar where everybody could relax.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLocated at \u003cstrong\u003e8228 Santa Monica Boulevard\u003c\/strong\u003e, Gold Coast opened in \u003cstrong\u003e1981\u003c\/strong\u003e and became a beloved fixture of the neighborhood for nearly four decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd this was definitely not the sort of place where you needed a reservation, a designer outfit, or six months at the gym.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGold Coast attracted an eclectic crowd of older gay men, bears, leather enthusiasts, neighborhood regulars, and younger visitors who appreciated a bar with some actual personality. 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Gold Coast remained stubbornly old-school, a place where the emphasis was still on community, conversation, and having a good time without spending a fortune.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was the sort of bar where regulars knew the bartenders, strangers could become friends, and nobody was particularly concerned about keeping up appearances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cstrong\u003eGold Coast closed in 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and mounting financial pressures, its disappearance marked the loss of another piece of West Hollywood's increasingly endangered gay-bar history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor generations of patrons, it wasn't simply somewhere to get a drink. 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