The largt gay neighborhood Los Angel, Wt Hollywood is home to dozens of LGBTQA-iendly rtrants, bars, spas, and shops.
Contents:
- UNRSTANDG LOS ANGEL (AND WT HOLLYWOOD) GAY HISTORY: CONTUY AND DISNTUY
- FOUR GAY-FRIENDLY HOTELS LOS ANGEL
- WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
- IS GENTRIFITN MAKG WT HOLLYWOOD LS GAY?
- PSYCHOTNAL SUPPORT GROUP FOR GAY MEN WHO RI WT HOLLYWOOD: A 10-WEEK GROUP CURRICULUM
UNRSTANDG LOS ANGEL (AND WT HOLLYWOOD) GAY HISTORY: CONTUY AND DISNTUY
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The cy also is seeg s gay populatn (39% of WeHo rints 2013) cle to 33% of rints 2019. Don Kilhefner, a chronicler and creator of gay history, explas how we got to where we are today and fantasiz about where we may move the future.
Los Angel has been lled “the cradle of Amerin gay history. Gay and lbian tablishment and ill-rmed polil rrecte attemptg to falsely rewre or erase nvenient parts of that gay history.
FOUR GAY-FRIENDLY HOTELS LOS ANGEL
WeHo Pri 2019, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebelln, the very reason for Pri’s existence, pletely ignored that earth-shakg event, pretendg like had never LA LGBT Center’s attempted 2019 to falsely rewre s early history and rrectly ced 1969 as the date for s 50th anniversary celebratn even though 1971 was the date ed to memorate s 25th Archiv refed to operate an attempt to provi a venue to asss the impact of Stonewall on the velopment of the Los Angel gay vic 1967 LAPD raid on the Black Cat, a Silver Lake gay bar, and s aftermath is skewed today to the pot of misreprentatn, and there are other exampl. Gay history is occurrg?
WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
Los Angel gay history n be divid to four very distct and vastly different perds. To honor the seven men—Harry Hay, Bob Hull, Chuck Rowland, Rudi Gernreich, Dale Jenngs, Jam Gber, Konrad Stevens—who rpond to Hay’s origal ll for a homosexual anizatn that 1951 beme the Mattache Society, named after the masked mattachi urt jters of medieval Europe thought by Hay to be largely homosexual men.
IS GENTRIFITN MAKG WT HOLLYWOOD LS GAY?
Mattache reprented the first succsful attempt at anizg Amerin gay men and lbians and ed their opprsor’s word, “homosexual, ” to scribe themselv.
Until the 1969 Stonewall Rebelln, protective super-paranoia based on dividual safety and survival om hetero supremacists’ vlence and physil and psychologil genoci characterized homosexual realy. History, homosexuals intified themselv as an opprsed mory group, affirmed that there was such a thg as a homosexual culture, implied, but never actualized, llective polil actn, and anized succsful, but secret, discsn groups entirely by word of mouth. In a pneerg and remarkable manner at that time, homosexuals began to dialogue wh each other about their opprsn as they experienced —often cel and adly.
PSYCHOTNAL SUPPORT GROUP FOR GAY MEN WHO RI WT HOLLYWOOD: A 10-WEEK GROUP CURRICULUM
The Homophile Perd (1953-1969): Conservativism, Rpectabily and Assiatn. (a name rived om Thomas Carlyle’s “A mystic bond of brotherhood mak all men one”) replaced Mattache and started g the scriptive term “homophile” (lover of man or same), importantly broang inty om a solely sexual fn to also clu relatnship. Dorr Legg (right), a central figure the Homophile perd, standg at the entrance to ONE’s send floor office at 2256 Venice Blvd.