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For decades, East Broadway was more than a collection of gay bars. It was where queer Long Beach found community, organized, mourned, fought back and built a neighborhood of its own. As those spaces change, I think understanding what they gave us matters to whatever we decide to build next. Walk down East Broadway today and you might not immediately
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1010 ViewsFor more than a century, Long Beach’s LGBTQ+ community has been building something along Broadway. Long before rainbow crosswalks, Pride celebrations, and official cultural district designations, LGBTQ+ residents were carving out spaces for themselves in a world that often treated them as outsiders. The history of the Broadway corridor is not simply a story of nightlife and celebration. It is
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