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Jimmy's Backyard, a short-lived speakeasy tucked away on Cosmo Street Hollywood, opened 1929 and was one of LA's first openly gay bars. Durg the Prohibn era, speakeasi beme a popular avenue for gay-d the “Pansy Craze” between the late 1920s and early 1930s, drag shows (before they had that name) were gag unrground populary. Jimmy’s Backyard, one of Hollywood’s first openly gay bars that opened on New Year’s Eve 1929, along wh B.
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