Dis and Gay Culture the 1970s

Contents:

• A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THREE OF LA'S HISTORIC BUT THREATENED GAY NIGHTCLUBS
• EARLY GAY CLUBS LA
• QUé PASó N EL ENOLA GAY, EL BOMBARRO QUE LANZó LA PRIMERA BOMBA ATóMI LA HISTORIA
• THE FOUNR OF ONE OF L.A.'S EARLIT GAY DISS ISN'T CRYG OVER S DTCTN
• RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

A LOOK BACK AT HOLLYWOOD’S UNRGROUND GAY CLUB CULTURE OF THE 1970S

Wt Hollywood has long been the rabow-draped pal of the gay muny Los Angel, but an article for KCET, cy planner Jam Rojas scrib the diverse and somewhat unr-the-radar gay dis circu of 1970s Hollywood. The popular dis formed rponse to prejudice wh the gay muny, as one of s founrs told LA Weekly 2015. He scrib the rtrant and popular pickup spot as exemplifyg the, "quiet world of mastream gay whe culture.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

" In Lillian Farman and Stuart Timmons’s Gay LA, the thors scribe how rtrant staff ed to splash the bathroom floors wh ammonia—the smell enuragg patrons not to lger longer than necsary. [KCET] Developers Will Save Parts of Historic Circ Dis But Raze Everythg Else [Curbed LA] Mappg Los Angel's Groundbreakg Role LGBT History [Curbed LA] The Past and Future of Three of LA's Historic But Threatened Gay Nightclubs [Curbed LA]. Los Angel is home to many s that have played an important role the cy and untry's LBGT civil rights history—om Huntgton Park to Echo Park and Silver Lake, the LA area has bars, clubs, ho, and stairs that are remrs of the early days of the gay rights movement and a heightened visibily for LGBT Angelenos.

↑ Wt Hollywood's legendary Stud One dis opened 1974 as not jt a safe place for gay people to ngregate, but one that "specifilly tered" to them, says the LA Conservancy. The venue also held one of the first major AIDS fundraisers and functned as an important lotn the gay rights movement. ↑ Circ Dis at Santa Moni Boulevard and Las Palmas was born 1975, part bee 's founrs Gene La Pietra and Er Lemos "were tired of beg turned away om whe, gay tablishments, " La Pietra told LA Weekly.

THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THREE OF LA'S HISTORIC BUT THREATENED GAY NIGHTCLUBS

The club grew to have a "primarily Lato patronage"; 1983, famed labor anizer Car Chavez me to Circ Dis to share boytt techniqu and fundraisg ias wh about 100 members of the Project Jt Bs, a gay and lbian group, says the LA Conservancy, which has been volved wh attempts to have the dis saved and prerved, stead of razed as a part of a large mixed-e muny. Opened eher 1972 or 1973 (sourc differ), the club was the first big dis to wele the black gay muny, which often got hassled at other (mostly whe) gay venu of the era. Over time, hosted film shoots and beme "a haven for entertaers, artists, progrsiv, gays and people who appreciated diversy cludg Sammy Davis Jr., Warren Beatty, Melba Moore, Phyllis Hyman, Freda Payne, Chaka Khan, Sylvter, Weather Girls, Rick Jam, and Esther Phillips, to name a few, " says the LA Sentel.

· Mappg Los Angel's Groundbreakg Role LGBT History [Curbed LA]· Wt Hollywood's Famo Factory is One of the Most Endangered Plac the US [Curbed LA]· "Megavelopment" Seeks to Sglehandly Gentrify Hollywood's Donut Time District [Curbed LA]· New Look For Hollywood's Huge Lexgton Mixed-User [Curbed LA]· First Major Gay Black Dis the US For Sale After 4 Des [Curbed LA]· Los Globos' Mch Elson Buys Legendary Mid-Cy Club Jewel's Catch One [LA Weekly]. Today we’ve piled a list featurg some of the hottt and upg LGBT clubs Los first LGBT clubs is mored to have started around the 1920s on the East Coast, however the Whe Horse Inn Oakland, California claims to be the olst gay bar operatn. Sce the 1920s or the openg of the Whe Horse Inn, the gay movement has grown and flourished.

EARLY GAY CLUBS LA

Luckily for those lookg for LGBT bars, there are many gay bars to equent, as the challenge now is fdg the right one, stead of searchg for one. The AbbeyThe tertnaly popular gay bar/gay club Abbey giv patrons a llectn of loung, outdoor terrac and exclive banas givg unlimed event optns, om private cktail parti to large-sle celebratn dners.

Known as a Wt Hollywood stutn, home of the Gay Walk of Fame, Elizabeth Taylor’s favore pub, and a muny center, The Abbey is one of the premier gay / lbian nightlife experienc Wt Los AngelThe BirdgeThe Birdge is one of the hottt VIP bars Santa Moni.

TnksTnks is Wt Hollywood’s popular gay sports bar. They is the iendly, provi a great place to share cktails, and a short walk om several other gay bars the area.

QUé PASó N EL ENOLA GAY, EL BOMBARRO QUE LANZó LA PRIMERA BOMBA ATóMI LA HISTORIA

Today, their spir ntu to grow and set a mol of excellence the lbian and gay Tops BarHi Tops is the newt bar to open up Weho’s Boystown that stands apart om many of the borg new spots around. Yep, the olst gay bar Wt Hollywood is gettg a facelift to stay petive wh all the excellent new addns that are buddg all over Boystown. The bar’s owner Robert Yaubian, who prefers to be lled Bob, says the bar is here to stay, that the new addns are imprive, and that the bar will rema a staple of Wt Hollywood’s gay history.

Back the mid-1980s, I ed to go wh iends to a happeng gay dis spot LA, a place lled Catch One. I’m not gay nor were the iends I’d go wh, but Catch One was always such a fun, iendly place. Moreover, ’s always been a place where gay men and women of all lors have felt ee to dance and jt be themselv.

This was pecially important for black and lato gay people, back the 1970s and 1980s, who didn’t feel as wele at the time Wt Hollywood. Hoe mic started Chigo the late 1970s, offerg gay, black, hispanic men, women, and other mori a place where they uld feel ee and safe and hang loose on the dance floors.

THE FOUNR OF ONE OF L.A.'S EARLIT GAY DISS ISN'T CRYG OVER S DTCTN

Catch One first opened s doors 1973 as an early mec for gay blacks and latos LA.

I wouldn’t have even known there was a gay night there if not for my Cafe LA terpreter for lat terviewe and LA-based archect/thor/producer and man around town, Humberto Capiro. They gaed such a dited followg among gay women who liked lat mic that they eventually helped to start a LGBT salsa night twice a month at an old, tablished night club lled Rudolpho’s Silverlake, at the rner of Fletcher and Riversi Drive.

RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

Later, they started “Salsa Con Clasé” on every first and third Saturday of the month, which ran om 1994–1999 and tered to both gay men and women. Rudolpho’s was eventually shut down by the fire partment for overcrowdg, but like Catch One, was once a place where everyone was wele, whether gay, straight, bisexual, or transgenr—the only thg that mattered was that you had a good time.

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. ” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.

He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.