At the base of the Hollywood Hills, the cy of Wt Hollywood is the centre of LGBTQ Los Angel. In 1984, Wt Hollywood beme the first majory-gay municipaly the untry, and ever sce, s rich tradn of pri and acceptance has been enjoyed by lols and visors alike. Today, LGBTQ rints prise more than 40 per cent of the 1.9-square-e muny, and the pestrian crossgs are pated as welg rabows.
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JT HOW GAY IS WT HOLLYWOOD?
Much like the Castro to San Francis or Boystown to Chigo, this statn, clared an official cy 1984 wh a populatn of jt over 36,000 as of 2020, is historilly known as one of the untry's most proment and still thrivg "gayborhoods," wh many inic and endurg LGBTQ nightlife spots along wh recent addns. Instantly regnizable thanks to artist Chris Burn's Instagram-ready outdoor "Urban Light" streetlamp stallatn, The Los Angel County Mm of Art (LACMA) is the wt ast's largt art mm and bis s ep permanent llectn featur cuttg edge, novative, and multimedia tourg exhibns: openly gay Black artist Keh Wiley's inic portra of Barack Obama and Amy Sherald's Michelle Obama will be on display om November 5, 2021 until January 2, 2022.
A WeHo landmark, Circ of Books closed 2019—a Netflix documentary chronicl s storied and very LGBTQ past—but drag queen and gay porn film director Chi Chi LaRue revived the space as Chi Chi LaRue's Circ 2020 as a lorful, upmarket store that clus adult goods, accsori, and well-curated selectns of ffee-table tom and lol art. Hollywood skre gu to the stars sce the 1970s (clients have clud Barbra Streisand, Ellen DeGener, Cher, Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Elton John, David Bowie, and Kylie Mogue), the Denmark-born, openly gay Ole Henriksen opened a namake WeHo Spa off Sunset Boulevard 1998, and remas a favore, discreet, zy oasis for sk and body pamperg treatments wh his excellent le of products today.
For dancg, visors n look forward to a brand new Santa Moni Boulevard gay megaclub, reportedly, the USA's largt, to open the space formerly occupied by 37-year-old dance club Rage, which closed permanently September 2020. Owner Lance Bass, the former N'Sync member, is also behd the gay sports bar and rtrant Roc's WeHo, which opened 2019 and boasts an illtrated and artifact-filled wall pictg the timele of LGBTQ history on the Wt Coast (a llaboratn wh USC Librari' ONE Archiv Foundatn). L.A.'s first gay sports bar, Gym, first opened 2009.