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Contents:
- THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
- THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
- ANOTHER LA GAY BATHHOE GONE WH THE CLOSG OF FLEX
- ANOTHER WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR HAS B THE DT AFTER 39 YEARS, UNABLE TO RENEGOTIATE LEASE AMID THE COVID PANMIC
- GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM
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A signed posted last night at the entrance to the parkg lot of the gay bathhoe, which is at 4424 Melrose Ave. He attributed that part to a cultural change, which he said is havg an impact on gay bathho across the untry.
“You don’t have to be the closet as a gay man, ” he said.
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Others have noted the populary of so-lled “hookup” apps like Grdr and Scff, which gay men e to meet other gay men on their mobile phon for sual sexual enunters. Bathho or spas terg to gay men have existed the Uned Stat sce at least the 1920s.
In a more homophobic culture, they were one of the few plac where gay men uld meet one another. Advot for the closure said the bathho were plac gay men met to have unprotected sex wh strangers. Opponents said the bathho were the perfect venue for tg gay men about the nsequenc of unprotected sex and were an important gatherg place a cy where many were hostile to gay people.
Los Angel has at least five other gay bathho. When we thk of LGBT culture and the movement for gay rights Los Angel, there's a tenncy to thk first of Wt Hollywood. But LA's rich gay history touch the entire cy, om Endale (now Silver Lake/Echo Park) to Huntgton Park to "Gger Rogers" Beach.
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This cint, though relatively small size, is often nsired by historians to be the first morn uprisg agast police treatment of gay people. John Rechy, a noted chronicler of gay LA, wrote his book Cy of Night that this lotn of the Cooper doughnut cha on Ma Street was the se of a 1959 uprisg of transgenr women and street htlers.
ANOTHER WT HOLLYWOOD GAY BAR HAS B THE DT AFTER 39 YEARS, UNABLE TO RENEGOTIATE LEASE AMID THE COVID PANMIC
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Rechy, who was prent the doughnut shop on the night May 1959 when the rt took place, not that at this time, was not unmon for police to arrt members of the gay populace simply for ngregatg or beg a bar that was beg raid. Rentment at beg targeted by the police me to a head the Cooper Do-Nuts, and when police me to the pecially popular gay hangout attemptg to arrt three people (Rechy among them), some of the trans women and gay patrons bombard the officers wh donuts, ffee, and paper plat until the police ran out seekg backup. Gay L.
Says the Cooper Do-Nuts was loted between two olr gay bars, Harold's and the Waldorf on Ma Street, south of the Rosslyn.
GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM
Harry Hay, creded wh foundg the first gay right anizatn, the Mattache Society, lived and had meetgs here at the time the group began 1950. ) Kev Rorick wrote his sightful logy for Hay Los Angel magaze that many nsir the hoe to be the birthplace of the gay rights movement.