Neighborhoods that emerged as havens for gay Californians are now feelg the effects of risg home pric and shiftg cultural norms.
Contents:
- JT HOW GAY IS WT HOLLYWOOD?
- IS ITS GAY POPULATN WHY WEHO HOG IS SO EXPENSIVE?
- UNRSTANDG LOS ANGEL (AND WT HOLLYWOOD) GAY HISTORY: CONTUY AND DISNTUY
- WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
- WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
- WT HOLLYWOOD GAY MEN ARE SLUTTIT IN NATN
- GENTRIFITN IS CHANGG CALIFORNIA’S INIC GAY MUNI
- GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020
- WT HOLLYWOOD HAS THIRD-HIGHT PERCENTAGE OF GAY COUPL STATE, CENS ANALYSIS SHOWS
JT HOW GAY IS WT HOLLYWOOD?
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LA Pri, one of the natn’s olst and largt LGBTQ pri celebratns, is leavg Wt Hollywood after more than four s the inic gay-iendly a letter to the Wt Hollywood Cy Council on Tuday, Christopher Street Wt, the nonprof that produc LA Pri, says the annual para and ftival will be moved om the cy 2021.
”“Wh s high ncentratn of LGBTQ rints and bs — more than 40% of rints Wt Hollywood intify as LGBTQ and three of the five members of the Wt Hollywood Cy Council are openly gay — the Cy of Wt Hollywood remas the heart of the regn’s LGBTQ muny, ” the cy’s statement reads. Wh 75% of s hoeholds occupied by LGBT people, WeHo easily tops the Castro district San Francis (66%), Dallas’s gay Uptown neighborhood (59%) and even Palm Sprgs (55%) and San Diego’s Hillcrt (55%).
Across metros, mand to live muni wh higher Neighborhood Pri sr has creased most New York, New Orleans, and Boston, where the premium to live gay neighborhoods has creased by 56 percentage pots, 52 percentage pots and 26 percentage pots rpectively. While Wt Hollywood may be the natn’s (and perhaps the world’s) gayt cy, the mand among gay people to live gay neighborhoods Greater Los Angel as a whole hasn’t creased as much as has other major metropolan areas.
IS ITS GAY POPULATN WHY WEHO HOG IS SO EXPENSIVE?
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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. 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.
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.
(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. As Mattache had started homosexuals talkg to each other about their opprsn, albe secretly, the Homophile era was important that, through s pneerg publitns, the wrten word also me out of the closet for the first time. Addnal fg characteristics of the Homophile era clud nyg that a homosexual culture existed, law reform was a panacea, advot for social acceptance for homophil should not be homophil themselv but hetero profsnals (misters, attorneys, psychologists and psychiatrists), and, for safety purpos, psdonyms were wily ed to shield real inti.
UNRSTANDG LOS ANGEL (AND WT HOLLYWOOD) GAY HISTORY: CONTUY AND DISNTUY
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D’E, lookg back over the attempted erasure of Mattache and the ascenncy of the Homophile effort, wr, “In sum, acmodatn to social norms replaced the affirmatn of a distctive gay inty, llective effort gave way to dividual actn, and nfince the abily of gay men and lbians to terpret their own experience yield to the wisdom of the experts.
It is important to unrstand historilly that New York Cy, Los Angel, San Francis and elsewhere the seeds and spiratn for the early Gay Liberatn revolutn did not e om eher the Mattache or the Homophile efforts, whose history most people were unaware of, even many members of the Gay Liberatn Front of Los Angel (GLF), whose cy that history rid.
Gay Liberatn was seed largely by the spiratn of and molg by the bravery of lunch unter s-s by black llege stunts, water hos and the ant black civil rights movement, the -your-face anti-Vietnam War protters, early femist thought and actn, and the righteons and zeal of numero other social jtice/social change movements. Before Stonewall, many gay and lbian people were actively engaged a myriad of progrsive social change efforts, sometim learship posns, but the closet due to the vilent and stutnalized hetero supremacy progrsive circl and society general. After Stonewall, a handful of those activists--other-, like 28-year old me, began to see our own personal fight for eedom as a gay person as well as the Gay Liberatn movement self as an sential part of the social revolutn occurrg around .
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
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The word “gay, ” a mid-20th century -word creasgly ed by hip folk that was gay-rived and to which a new gay-fed and gay-fiant inty uld be poured, was married to the word “liberatn.
WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE
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A Homophile emancipatn md-set (heteros will give our eedom and accept if we behave and act jt like them) was supersed by a liberatn iology and a grassroots, radil prott movement (gay and lbian people will une llectively and antly ee ourselv). A., GLF, the central anizg enty facilatg the Gay Liberatn movement here, fought back agast hetero supremacy wh direct nontatnal polil actn and a fierce unwillgns to promise on anythg impactg the eedom and well-beg of gay and lbian people.
WT HOLLYWOOD GAY MEN ARE SLUTTIT IN NATN
After a year and a half of dac monstratns and nontatns, 1971 GLF’s Gay Survival Commtee morphed to the Gay Communy Servic Center (now lled the LA LGBT Center) around which an anized, visible and polilly proactive gay muny alced where none had ever existed before.
Om psychologil exile New Mexi and 1979 lerally moved him back—the Mattache and Gay Liberatn historilly uned -creatg another leap forward gay-centered nscns, the Radil Faeri.
GENTRIFITN IS CHANGG CALIFORNIA’S INIC GAY MUNI
While the ntemporary Neo-Homophile era is whout doubt many steps higher on the polil and cultural evolutnary ladr than s pre-Stonewall namake, the two eras have a basic ronance wh each other, even though there is no strict one-to-one rrponnce.
GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020
The name fs bee today the Neo-Homophile’s unrlyg polil, personal inty, and cultural nscns rembl the earlier nservative Homophile era, but wh a liberal, public relatns veneer.
Currently there is the same Homophile assiatn iology (we are no different than heteros except for the object of our sexual sire) wh a largely whe, upper middle-class agenda, often imatg and nformg to hetero culture—for example, marriage, which fails about 50% of the time and which was low on Gay Liberatn’s agenda. Another characteristic of the Neo-Homophile era is s top-down, hierarchil stcture largely based on race, class, wealth and a dly- reformist agenda and nventnal electoral polics. It is why the grassroots Sprg 2020 Insurrectn, triggered by police vlence toward black people, befuddled Pri and the Wt Hollywood Neo-Homophile tablishment, g a bacle there.
WT HOLLYWOOD HAS THIRD-HIGHT PERCENTAGE OF GAY COUPL STATE, CENS ANALYSIS SHOWS
Now, the ntug tug-of-war between Christopher Street Wt and the Cy of Wt Hollywood, actg as if each enty owns Pri, and as if the opn of the Los Angel LGBTQ muny is irrelevant, monstrat how far Neo-Homophilism has drifted om the ialism of Gay Liberatn and how imperv has bee to real social change.