Wele to Wt Hollywood Boystown! The year is 1981, and if you were a homosexual man (mostly whe) lookg for some fun the unrporated part of Los Angel County unofficially known as Wt Hollywood, then you had plenty to choose om a long list of nightlife gay bars, diss, rtrants, bathho and gay-owned
Contents:
- UNRSTANDG LOS ANGEL (AND WT HOLLYWOOD) GAY HISTORY: CONTUY AND DISNTUY
- THE HISTORY OF THE ABBEY, WT HOLLYWOOD'S WORLD-FAMO GAY BAR
- WT HOLLYWOOD: WALK THIS WAY, A DAY OF GAY
UNRSTANDG LOS ANGEL (AND WT HOLLYWOOD) GAY HISTORY: CONTUY AND DISNTUY
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.
Gay and lbian tablishment and ill-rmed polil rrecte attemptg to falsely rewre or erase nvenient parts of that gay history. 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. Los Angel gay history n be divid to four very distct and vastly different perds.
THE HISTORY OF THE ABBEY, WT HOLLYWOOD'S WORLD-FAMO GAY BAR
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.
WT HOLLYWOOD: WALK THIS WAY, A DAY OF 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.