For both of them, Saturday was their first live performance after months of Zooms and Twitch streams.
“There’s just nothing like being onstage with real people around you,” she said. “The energy is totally different, and it was overwhelming, but oh, it feels so good to be back. I feel like I’m becoming a full person again.”While performers like Rubino and Bachemin occupied the main stage, where dozens of guests laid out on picnic blankets or braved the searing heat of the amphitheater’s concrete seats, others competed in games like water balloon tosses and human deadlifting .
Chrissy Barron, a 30-year-old Crossfit fan who works as a vice president of marketing, described the vibe of the party as supportive and loving — but she also didn’t come to play. She dominated the pushup contest with 56 impressively precise pushups .“Oh my god, so many endorphins,” Barron said after her victory. “I’m so competitive, so it’s really ridiculous.”
Jenna, dressed in a black crop top, ripped jeans and black combat boots, had emceed the pushup contest, alternating between encouragement, critiques of subpar pushups and a drill sergeant’s incoherent yelling into a megaphone.The two talked briefly about their pushup prowess. Soon a small group formed. Jenna and Barron were joined by Radig and Vic Molina, a 24-year-old baseball agent and recent L.A. transplant they met that day.
On social media, Lilly heard from several people who said they’d lived in Los Angeles for years and didn’t know how to find queer events. She was familiar with the struggle — after she moved to Los Angeles in 2014 she immediately started going to parties hosted by Whitney Mixter, a cast member of Showtime’s “The Real L Word” documentary, to meet people.“I was just lucky to have watched that show … but there was so much more going on that I didn’t know about,” Lilly said.
Ari Julien, a 24-year-old assistant in the entertainment industry and her partner Trae Waggoner, a 25-year-old grad student, were there to meet up with a woman who was helping plan the event.“It’s what you do, right? You volunteer for their event. Trying to be supportive here,” Julien joked. “We actually didn’t even know it was for a lesbian bar until today or yesterday which was even fucking better.
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