Gays go wild in WeHo as Dodgers clinch gayest and greatest World Series
Gay Dodgers fans in West Hollywood celebrated with an eruption of cheers - and champagne shot into the air - after the World Series win. The post Gays go wild in WeHo as Dodgers clinch gayest and greatest World Series appeared first on Outsports.
Mark
I was walking to the restroom at Gym Bar WeHo Saturday night when I noticed one of our longtime friends hunched over a high-top table in his Los Angeles Dodgers jersey, his face buried in his hands. It was the 10th inning, game tied, Dodgers at the plate.
“Is David OK?” I asked his husband.
“Oh yeah,” he replied. “This game is just too stressful for him.”
Another young man in his late 20s was pacing in his small square of the crowded outdoor patio as the 10th turned into the 11th inning.
“I’m not sure I can take this stress much more,” he said as he wrapped his hand around his face.
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Yes, the gays love their Dodgers as much as any longtime fan.
The gay fans who piled into Gym Bar Saturday night for Game 7 stretched the span of “I was passing by and stopped in to check out the crowd” to “I all Blue.” Just like any typical sports bar.
The bar was so popular, a rare line formed down Hilldale Ave., prompting a couple entitled 25-year-olds to get upset with security, even as a City Council member and a Team USA athlete waited patiently.
But that’s a gay sports bar for World Series Game 7: packed to capacity. And this was not just any gay sports bar… Gym Bar is owned by Dodgers executive Erik Braverman and his husband, Jonathan Cottrell, who married one another at Dodgers Stadium.
The crowd wanted to celebrate Erik and Jonathan, and they got their wish.
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Gay fans go wild for the Dodgers
When the Dodgers homered late in the game — first Max Muncy in the eighth, then Miguel Rojas saving the game in the 9th, and then Will Smith in the 11th — each score built an eruption from the Gym Bar crowd that would rival anything heard last night in SoCal.
Champagne showered the Gym Bar crowd.
It’s easy to understand why.
Think about what happened in the final innings of that game.
The Dodgers were down, 4-2, on the road in Game 7 of the World Series. And in the span of about 90 minutes, the players hit three solo home runs in three different innings to tie — then win — the game.
Wild.
When we started Outsports in 1999, most people in and out of the gay community thought no gay men liked sports. It was false then, and reality today is the complete opposite.
Gym Bar WeHo was absolutely electric for Game 7 of this unforgettable World Series between the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays. Dodgers jerseys and hats were everywhere.
The boys of WeHo love their Boys in Blue.
And when the Dodgers defense locked in the team’s once seemingly impossible win, they gays exploded like the fireworks that would light up the Valley and 10 freeway minutes later to celebrate the win.
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Particularly special to me was watching a young gay couple — gosh, 23? 24? — decked out from head to toe in Dodgers gear. I watched their nerves as the game was in the balance.
Watching their joy — two guys who will never know a gay community that doesn’t embrace sports — literally brought a tear to my eye. Though, as anyone who knows me knows, that’s not super hard.
It was a special night at Gym Bar for Game 7 of this World Series. In fact, all of the gay sports bars in West Hollywood were packed to watch the Fall Classic.
I know where I’ll be watching many future big games.
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