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• LOTS OF GAY SEX THE BH - GRIFFH OBSERVATORY
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• NEIGHBORS TACKLE GAY CISG
• QUEER NEIGHBORHOODS\NMY FAVORE ASPECT OF LOS ANGEL’ QUEER LIFE IS S ABILY TO ACODATE A VARIETY OF SUBCULTUR AND PASSNS DUE TO S ENORMO POPULATN AND WI NSTELLATNS OF NEIGHBORHOODS. WHILE QUEER LIFE IS CENTERED WT HOLLYWOOD, SILVER LAKE, AND DOWNTOWN, PULS THROUGHOUT THE CY BETIFUL, DIVERSE, AND CREATIV WAYS. YOU’LL NEED MORE THAN A FEW LIFETIM TO EXPERIENCE ALL, BUT HERE ARE A FEW STANDOUTS. \NWT HOLLYWOOD\NHOME TO OVER TWENTY GAY BARS WALKG DISTANCE, A PLETHORA OF QUEER-OWNED BS,  LA PRI FTIVAL AND PARA, OUTFT, A HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL, AND OVER A THIRD OF RINTS INTIFIYG AS LGBTQ+, THE CY OF WT HOLLYWOOD IS PATED WH RABOW STREET CROSSGS YEAR ROUND. IT’S NO WONR “WEHO” HAS BEEN A TOP LGBTQ+ WELG STATN SCE THE 1970S AND NTU TO DRAW TRAVELERS AND NEW RINTS OM AROUND THE WORLD. \NSILVER LAKE\NTHOUGH STONEWALL IS LARGELY CREDED WH CG THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT, LOS ANGEL HAS A FEW HISTORIL LGBTQ+ UPRISGS THAT PREDATE THE INN’S 1969 RTS, CLUDG THE BLACK CAT RAIDS AND PROTTS SILVER LAKE THAT TOOK PLACE 1967. THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS LONG BEEN AN EPICENTER FOR QUEER CULTURE— WAS HOME TO “AMERI’S FIRST CELEBRATED DRAG PERFORMER,” JULIAN ELTGE, THE 1910S/20S, THE MATTACHE SOCIETY (SAID TO BE AMERI’S FIRST GAY ORANIZATN, T. 1950), AS WELL AS A PREVALENT 80S LEATHER SCENE. THE NEIGHBORHOOD’S QUEER HEART STILL BEATS STRONGLY SPE GENTRIFITN AS MANY QUEER-OWNED BS NTUE TO THRIVE. \NDOWNTOWN LA\NDTLA HAS RECENTLY TABLISHED SELF AS AN UP-AND-G QUEER NEIGHBORHOOD SCE A HANDFUL OF QUEER-OWNED BS AND BARS OPENED 2015, BUT S QUEER HISTORY IS LONG AND STORIED, CLUDG SOME OF THE FIRST LGBTQ+ RTS THE UNTRY AT COOPER DO-NUTS 1959, AS WELL AS A LLECTN OF GAY-IENDLY HANGOUTS AND CISG LOL PERISHG SQUARE LLED “THE RUN” PREVALENT OM THE 20S TO THE 60S. THE LOFTY NEIGHBORHOOD EVEN PUTS ON ’S OWN PRI FTIVAL, DTLA PROUD, EVERY AUGT. \N \NBT PLAC TO STAY\NACE HOTEL DOWNTOWN LOS ANGEL\NTHERE ARE A HANDFUL OF NEW HOTELS SPRGG UP DOWNTOWN, BUT THE ACE REMAS ONE OF THE MOST QUEER-IENDLY, WH S PRI POOL PARTI, SOCIALS, AND S STUNNG PROGRAMMG AT THE 1927 GOTHIC-STYLE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL, WHERE PERFORMERS LIKE SASCHA VELOUR, BIAN DEL R, KATYA ZAMOLODCHIKOVA, AND MANY MORE HAVE PERFORMED SOLO SHOWS TO SOLD OUT DIENC.\NPALIHOE WT HOLLYWOOD\NSTEPS AWAY OM THE REVELRY ON NEARBY SANTA MONI BOULEVARD, THE BOUTIQUE 37-ROOM PALIHOE WT HOLLYWOOD IS A TE REFUGE THE HEART OF ONE OF THE WORLDS LARGT GAYBORHOODS. THE HOTEL HAS HANDSOME TERRS, A SUN-DRENCHED ROOFTOP WH WI VIEWS OF LOS ANGEL, AS WELL AS AN ELEGANT BAR.\NAIRBNBS SILVER LAKE\NFEEL LIKE A LOL AND RENT A BUNGALOW SILVER LAKE. 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THE BRIGHTLY L ART DE TERR ALSO HAS A FEW SHELV HOLDG A SMALL BUT POWERFUL LIBRARY OF QUEER THEORY AND LERATURE—THE SPACE ALSO HOSTS QUEER BOOK CLUBS, SOCIALS, AND OTHER EVENTS. \NCASA DEL CAMPO\NSILVER LAKE’S CASA DEL CAMPO HAS BEEN AROUND SCE 1962 AND HAS BEE A QUEER LANDMARK SCE WAS ONCE SURROUND BY BATH HO AND LEATHER BARS. BIS S HEARTY CAL-TEX MENU (AND HEAVY POUR MARGARAS) ’S KNOWN FOR S BARET THEATRE, THE CAVERN CLUB THEATER, WHICH PUTS ON MPY PLAYS, DRAG SHOWS, AND DANCE PERFORMANC. \NWILDFANG\NNEW YORK AND PORTALND AREN’T THE ONLY CI WH THE QUEER-OWNED FEMIST FASHN BRAND KNOWN AS WILDFANG. LOS ANGEL HAS S OWN BRICK-AND-MORTAR STORE THE HEART OF SILVER LAKE, ON THE BY SUNSET BOULEVARD. \N","MARKER":{"NAME":"","IMAGE":{},"SCRIPTN":"","NTENT":[]},"ID":480312479},{"TYPE":"SLISHOW","IMAG":[{"RETAHEIGHT":802,"MOBILESRC":","SRC":","MOBILEWIDTH":558,"SQUARELARGEHEIGHT":640,"WIDTH":1200,"PTN":"JUICY LEAF.","HEIGHT":802,"SQUARELARGEWIDTH":640,"SQUAREHUGE":","RETASRC":","MOBILEHEIGHT":373,"ALT":"","SQUARESMALL":","RETAWIDTH":1200,"SQUAREHUGEHEIGHT":802,"SQUARESMALLHEIGHT":320,"SQUAREMEDIUM":","SQUAREMEDIUMWIDTH":480,"SQUAREMEDIUMHEIGHT":480,"ID":20792,"SQUARESMALLWIDTH":320,"SQUARELARGE":","SQUAREHUGEWIDTH":960}],"ID":1084630881},{"TYPE":"PARAGRAPH","NTENT":"THE JUICY LEAF\NWHILE VISG L.A., ’S HARD NOT TO FALL LOVE WH THE CTI, SUCCULENTS, AND OTHER LORFUL PLANTS LEAPG OM THE CY’S GARNS. HIGHLAND PARK’S QUEER-OWNED BOUTIQUE, THE JUICY LEAF, SELLS A BRIGHT ASSORTMENT OF UNIQUE PLANTS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE URBAN GARNER. \NCELEBRATN THEATER\NCELEBRATN THEATER, NOW BASED AT THE LEX HOLLYWOOD, WAS FOUND 1982 BY MATTACHE SOCIETY -FOUNR CHARL ROWLAND AND HAS SCE PUT TOGETHER S OF PERFORMANC CLUDG THE ORIGAL NAKED BOYS SGG! AND A CRILLY-ACCLAIMED PRODUCTN OF BOYS FROM OZ.\NWILL ROGERS STATE BEACH\NWHILE MUCH OF LOS ANGEL’S QUEER LIFE IS BASED WT HOLLYWOOD, SILVER LAKE, AND DTLA, THE WT SI NTAS A SIGNIFINT QUEER POPULATN (AND SOME TERTG QUEER HISTORY)—BUT NO CURRENT FULL TIME QUEER TABLISHMENTS OR BARS. THE AREA DO HOWEVER, HAVE ’S OWN “UNOFFICIAL” GAY BEACH, NICKNAMED “GGER ROGERS BEACH” NEAR LIFEGUARD STATN 26 ON THE WI SAND BEACH, JT A SHORT DRIVE NORTH OF SANTA MONI.\N","MARKER":{"NAME":"","IMAGE":{},"SCRIPTN":"","NTENT":[]},"ID":3206476616},{"TYPE":"SLISHOW","IMAG":[{"RETAHEIGHT":899,"MOBILESRC":","SRC":","MOBILEWIDTH":498,"SQUARELARGEHEIGHT":640,"WIDTH":1200,"PTN":"VIEW OM GRIFFH PARK. ","HEIGHT":899,"SQUARELARGEWIDTH":640,"SQUAREHUGE":","RETASRC":","MOBILEHEIGHT":373,"ALT":"","SQUARESMALL":","RETAWIDTH":1200,"SQUAREHUGEHEIGHT":899,"SQUARESMALLHEIGHT":320,"SQUAREMEDIUM":","SQUAREMEDIUMWIDTH":480,"SQUAREMEDIUMHEIGHT":480,"ID":20791,"SQUARESMALLWIDTH":320,"SQUARELARGE":","SQUAREHUGEWIDTH":960}],"ID":3561250743},{"TYPE":"PARAGRAPH","NTENT":"ARTS & CULTURE \NONE NATNAL GAY & LBIAN ARCHIV AT THE USC LIBRARI\NTHE ONE ARCHIV AT USC HOLD THE LARGT LLECTN OF LGBTQ MATERIALS—BOOKS, PERDILS, CLOTHG, ARTWORKS, PHOTOGRAPHY, D RERDGS, VIOS, LETTERS, EPHEMERA, AND MUCH, MUCH MORE— THE WORLD. THE SPACE IS NAMED AFTER ONE MAGAZE, THE FIRST “NATNAL HOMOSEXUAL PERDIL” FOUND 1952. VIS TUDAY-SATURDAY AND BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THEIR SIBLG GALLERY SPACE WT HOLLYWOOD, ONE ARCHIV GALLERY AND MM, WHICH FEATUR TN IATIV AND THOUGHT PROVOKG EXHIBS. WHILE NOT ASSOCIATED WH ONE, WT HOLLYWOOD IS ALSO HOME TO THE  THE JUNE L. MAZER LBIAN ARCHIV.\NLACMA\NLOS ANGEL HAS AN CREDIBLE ASSORTMENT OF NTEMPORARY ART MMS HOSTG QUEER EXHIBS AND ARTISTS AND LOS ANGEL COUNTY MM OF ART IS NO EXCEPTN. HERE, MAPPLETHORP, HOCKNEYS, TOM OF FLANDS, EAKS, AND LIGONS HAVE CLEARED THE STAGE FOR CURRENT QUEER ARTISTS LIKE TERA LA TORRE, DEV GALDO, AND PL MPAGI SEPUYA TO SHOWSE THEIR NOVATIVE NTEMPORARY WORK. \NGRIFFH PARK\NAT 4,210 ACR (NEARLY FIVE CENTRAL PARKS!), GRIFFH PARK IS SAID TO BE ONE OF THE LARGT MUNICIPAL PARKS WH URBAN WILRNS AREAS THE UNTRY. THE MASSIVE PARK IS HOME TO MORE THAN 53 OF STEEP HIKG TRAILS, THE AUTRY MM OF THE AMERIN WT, THE GEO GRIFFH OBSERVATORY, AND S VERY OWN MOUNTA LN, P-22. THE PARK WAS EVEN THE SETTG OF A “GAY-” MONSTRATN ANIZED 1970 BY THE GROUP THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT.\N \NQUEER NIGHTLIFE
• GAY HISTORY OF L.A.
• NO MORE GAY CISG SIGNS SILVER LAKE
• GAY CISG PARKS NEAR ME
• GAY CISG GRIFFH (ARIZONA)
• GAY CISG GRIFFH (TEXAS)
• GAY CISG GRIFFH

LOTS OF GAY SEX THE BH - GRIFFH OBSERVATORY

The i even took place daylight bee Griffh Park had vast areas where the overgrown scb provid a venue that was like a verable outdoor gay bathhoe. "On Memorial Day of 1968, men and women gathered at the Griffh Park Merry-Go-Round to hear Mike Hannon, a policeman turned lawyer and Civil Rights activist, speak to the challeng of beg gay a homophobic society. Like the para, the purpose of the gay-s was to enurage LGBT persons to e out of the closet and to enurage the public to accept alternative exprsns of sexualy and genr.

Challengg the LAPD policy that effectively banned gays and lbians om ngregatg public was also one of the goals of the GLF, which was largely achieved by the events. On Memorial Day of 1968, men and women gathered at the Griffh Park Merry-Go-Round to hear Mike Hannon, a policeman turned lawyer and Civil Rights activist, speak to the challeng of beg gay a homophobic society. Disenchanted wh muny bickerg as well as the police, he moved to the Bay Area flare-up gay-iendly Silver Lake raised lite qutns about muny valu.

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

And beyond that, the ntroversy spotlighted the centuri-old culture--disgtg to some, thrillg to others--of gay men who are drawn to sexual adventure outsi the bedroom.

The stigmatizatn of homosexualy may be fadg and the laws that kept gay relatns furtive and crimal may be long gone stat like California, but for some, the appeal of quick, anonymo enunters, there is even an Inter se that offers an extensive, nstantly updated listg of sex cisg spots across the untry.

“There are tim when my emotn partment is filled, ” explaed Pl (not his real name), a gay man who is a long-term relatnship but has cised bath ho and off the trails of Griffh Park. ”Pl was arrted for lewd nduct last year, and his se illtrat some of the gay muny’s recurrg allegatns: that unrver vice officers are ed as ys and don’t simply arrt people they fd engagg public sex, but actively lure men they thk are gay and fabrite scenars arrt was a park men’s room, on a day when he says he was there to enjoy the observatory view and hike, not cise. Intify themselv as non-gay, heterosexually married and live Rubidoux, San Bernardo, Palmdale, where they’re livg their straight world, ” observed LAPD Officer Lisa Phillips, the partment’s liaison to the gay muny.

NEIGHBORS TACKLE GAY CISG

”While cisg attracts men of all ag, Santa Ana attorney Geia Garrett Norris said her married clients tend to be olr than 50, torn between homosexual yearngs they n barely acknowledge and straight fay life that is the foundatn of their personal inty. ”Although Los Angel psychologist and veteran gay activist Donald Kilhefner believ a sire for quick anonymo enunters n be a healthy sexual exprsn, he said many of the men he has treated are volved “pulsive, addictive sexual behavr” that is often tied to shame about their sexualy. ”Even as some gay lears and wrers lament that gay male culture is too obssed wh sex for s own good, others spect there will always be public sex the gay world.

QUEER NEIGHBORHOODS\NMY FAVORE ASPECT OF LOS ANGEL’ QUEER LIFE IS S ABILY TO ACODATE A VARIETY OF SUBCULTUR AND PASSNS DUE TO S ENORMO POPULATN AND WI NSTELLATNS OF NEIGHBORHOODS. WHILE QUEER LIFE IS CENTERED WT HOLLYWOOD, SILVER LAKE, AND DOWNTOWN, PULS THROUGHOUT THE CY BETIFUL, DIVERSE, AND CREATIV WAYS. YOU’LL NEED MORE THAN A FEW LIFETIM TO EXPERIENCE ALL, BUT HERE ARE A FEW STANDOUTS. \NWT HOLLYWOOD\NHOME TO OVER TWENTY GAY BARS WALKG DISTANCE, A PLETHORA OF QUEER-OWNED BS,  LA PRI FTIVAL AND PARA, OUTFT, A HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL, AND OVER A THIRD OF RINTS INTIFIYG AS LGBTQ+, THE CY OF WT HOLLYWOOD IS PATED WH RABOW STREET CROSSGS YEAR ROUND. IT’S NO WONR “WEHO” HAS BEEN A TOP LGBTQ+ WELG STATN SCE THE 1970S AND NTU TO DRAW TRAVELERS AND NEW RINTS OM AROUND THE WORLD. \NSILVER LAKE\NTHOUGH STONEWALL IS LARGELY CREDED WH CG THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT, LOS ANGEL HAS A FEW HISTORIL LGBTQ+ UPRISGS THAT PREDATE THE INN’S 1969 RTS, CLUDG THE BLACK CAT RAIDS AND PROTTS SILVER LAKE THAT TOOK PLACE 1967. THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS LONG BEEN AN EPICENTER FOR QUEER CULTURE— WAS HOME TO “AMERI’S FIRST CELEBRATED DRAG PERFORMER,” JULIAN ELTGE, THE 1910S/20S, THE MATTACHE SOCIETY (SAID TO BE AMERI’S FIRST GAY ORANIZATN, T. 1950), AS WELL AS A PREVALENT 80S LEATHER SCENE. THE NEIGHBORHOOD’S QUEER HEART STILL BEATS STRONGLY SPE GENTRIFITN AS MANY QUEER-OWNED BS NTUE TO THRIVE. \NDOWNTOWN LA\NDTLA HAS RECENTLY TABLISHED SELF AS AN UP-AND-G QUEER NEIGHBORHOOD SCE A HANDFUL OF QUEER-OWNED BS AND BARS OPENED 2015, BUT S QUEER HISTORY IS LONG AND STORIED, CLUDG SOME OF THE FIRST LGBTQ+ RTS THE UNTRY AT COOPER DO-NUTS 1959, AS WELL AS A LLECTN OF GAY-IENDLY HANGOUTS AND CISG LOL PERISHG SQUARE LLED “THE RUN” PREVALENT OM THE 20S TO THE 60S. THE LOFTY NEIGHBORHOOD EVEN PUTS ON ’S OWN PRI FTIVAL, DTLA PROUD, EVERY AUGT. \N \NBT PLAC TO STAY\NACE HOTEL DOWNTOWN LOS ANGEL\NTHERE ARE A HANDFUL OF NEW HOTELS SPRGG UP DOWNTOWN, BUT THE ACE REMAS ONE OF THE MOST QUEER-IENDLY, WH S PRI POOL PARTI, SOCIALS, AND S STUNNG PROGRAMMG AT THE 1927 GOTHIC-STYLE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL, WHERE PERFORMERS LIKE SASCHA VELOUR, BIAN DEL R, KATYA ZAMOLODCHIKOVA, AND MANY MORE HAVE PERFORMED SOLO SHOWS TO SOLD OUT DIENC.\NPALIHOE WT HOLLYWOOD\NSTEPS AWAY OM THE REVELRY ON NEARBY SANTA MONI BOULEVARD, THE BOUTIQUE 37-ROOM PALIHOE WT HOLLYWOOD IS A TE REFUGE THE HEART OF ONE OF THE WORLDS LARGT GAYBORHOODS. THE HOTEL HAS HANDSOME TERRS, A SUN-DRENCHED ROOFTOP WH WI VIEWS OF LOS ANGEL, AS WELL AS AN ELEGANT BAR.\NAIRBNBS SILVER LAKE\NFEEL LIKE A LOL AND RENT A BUNGALOW SILVER LAKE. BIS THEIR FAIRLY CENTRAL LOTN THE CY BETWEEN DTLA AND WT HOLLYWOOD, YOU’LL BE CLOSE TO HIP STOR, QUEER HISTORY, AND LIVELY BARS LIKE AKBAR.\N","MARKER":{"NAME":"","IMAGE":{},"SCRIPTN":"","NTENT":[]},"ID":560783920},{"TYPE":"SLISHOW","IMAG":[{"RETAHEIGHT":802,"MOBILESRC":","SRC":","MOBILEWIDTH":558,"SQUARELARGEHEIGHT":640,"WIDTH":1200,"PTN":"CUTI. ","HEIGHT":802,"SQUARELARGEWIDTH":640,"SQUAREHUGE":","RETASRC":","MOBILEHEIGHT":373,"ALT":"","SQUARESMALL":","RETAWIDTH":1200,"SQUAREHUGEHEIGHT":802,"SQUARESMALLHEIGHT":320,"SQUAREMEDIUM":","SQUAREMEDIUMWIDTH":480,"SQUAREMEDIUMHEIGHT":480,"ID":20790,"SQUARESMALLWIDTH":320,"SQUARELARGE":","SQUAREHUGEWIDTH":960}],"ID":205751492},{"TYPE":"PARAGRAPH","NTENT":"QUEER-OWNED BS \NCUTI\NCUTI, A TWO-STORY FFEE SHOP AND MUNY CENTER EAST HOLLYWOOD MAY BE ONE OF THE ONLY BRICK-AND-MORTAR QUEER F THE STAT AND IS A GREAT PLACE TO MEET PEOPLE BEYOND THE BARS AND CLUBS OF THE GREATER LOS ANGEL AREA. THE BRIGHTLY L ART DE TERR ALSO HAS A FEW SHELV HOLDG A SMALL BUT POWERFUL LIBRARY OF QUEER THEORY AND LERATURE—THE SPACE ALSO HOSTS QUEER BOOK CLUBS, SOCIALS, AND OTHER EVENTS. \NCASA DEL CAMPO\NSILVER LAKE’S CASA DEL CAMPO HAS BEEN AROUND SCE 1962 AND HAS BEE A QUEER LANDMARK SCE WAS ONCE SURROUND BY BATH HO AND LEATHER BARS. BIS S HEARTY CAL-TEX MENU (AND HEAVY POUR MARGARAS) ’S KNOWN FOR S BARET THEATRE, THE CAVERN CLUB THEATER, WHICH PUTS ON MPY PLAYS, DRAG SHOWS, AND DANCE PERFORMANC. \NWILDFANG\NNEW YORK AND PORTALND AREN’T THE ONLY CI WH THE QUEER-OWNED FEMIST FASHN BRAND KNOWN AS WILDFANG. 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THE PARK WAS EVEN THE SETTG OF A “GAY-” MONSTRATN ANIZED 1970 BY THE GROUP THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT.\N \NQUEER NIGHTLIFE

“A lot of gay guys are part of gay culture bee they don’t want to be locked to the bondg thg, ” said Amerin Universy anthropology profsor William Leap, who is edg a book on public sex.

GAY HISTORY OF L.A.

“It was much ls a moral issue than a practil issue of keepg thgs lookg well, ” De Cec this century, cisg beme a faiar lerary theme as well, related gay novels and memoirs as voyag of self-disvery and young protagonist of Edmund Whe’s “The Betiful Room Is Empty” spends a good chunk of his llege reer universy bathrooms. Home to over twenty gay bars walkg distance, a plethora of queer-owned bs, LA Pri Ftival and Para, Outft, a Halloween Carnival, and over a third of rints intifiyg as LGBTQ+, the Cy of Wt Hollywood is pated wh rabow street crossgs year round.

NO MORE GAY CISG SIGNS SILVER LAKE

Though Stonewall is largely creded wh cg the gay rights movement, Los Angel has a few historil LGBTQ+ uprisgs that predate the Inn’s 1969 rts, cludg The Black Cat raids and protts Silver Lake that took place 1967. The neighborhood has long been an epicenter for queer culture— was home to “Ameri’s first celebrated drag performer, ” Julian Eltge, the 1910s/20s, the Mattache Society (said to be Ameri’s first gay oranizatn, t. DTLA has recently tablished self as an up-and-g queer neighborhood sce a handful of queer-owned bs and bars opened 2015, but s queer history is long and storied, cludg some of the first LGBTQ+ rts the untry at Cooper Do-Nuts 1959, as well as a llectn of gay-iendly hangouts and cisg lol Perishg Square lled “The Run” prevalent om the 20s to the 60s.

GAY CISG PARKS NEAR ME

Steps away om the revelry on nearby Santa Moni Boulevard, the boutique 37-room Palihoe Wt Hollywood is a te refuge the heart of one of the worlds largt gayborhoods.

The area do however, have ’s own “unofficial” gay beach, nicknamed “Gger Rogers Beach” near lifeguard statn 26 on the wi sand beach, jt a short drive north of Santa Moni. Dog s part to mark the 225th birthday of Los Angel, IN Los Angel asked thor Stuart Timmons to e up wh a whopper of a list: 225 plac of historil importance the gay and lbian annals of the metropolis. For stance, he wr that Merced Hoe, which still stands at 420 North Sprg, was a 19th century theater that hosted masked balls for male and female prostut and beme a vert gay lodgg hoe.

GAY CISG GRIFFH (ARIZONA)

(13) Pershg Square, at 5th and Hill, was the meetg ground for gay men for most of the 20th century before cy fathers uprooted and paved this homoerotic paradise.

�s Harry Hay dreamed up �Bachelors Anonymo, � a gay brastorm that by 1950 beme the Mattache Society, Ameri�s first gay anizatn, which started at 2328 Cove Ave., a hoe overlookg Silver Lake... 12, 1976, returng om a play rehearsal (he played a gay burglar), Meo was stabbed to ath outsi his (91) Wt Hollywood apartment at 8563 Holloway (between La Cienega and Alta Loma)... #225 is the Disney Animatn Studs Burbank: "Created, among other gay animated fantasi, Bety and the Beast, one of the last sr wrten by Howard Ashman before he died of AIDS.

In dog so, Danny’s work vtigated the spatial memory of gay cisg s, of nnectn and timacy that once played out the lotns—spac no longer e for that purpose, but also not pletely erased eher. Danny explaed that his work aims to prerve and document the s as plac of muny buildg, where gay men once upon a time fed bonds and created a sense of shared belongg through the most timate and secretive of acts. Tim article tled “Neighbors Tackle Gay Cisg” tells of neighbors, both newly arrived and longstandg, gettg sick and tired of the cisg scene the areas around Griffh Park.

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And though this might ially seem like a progrsive and bold step on behalf of rints, one that looks to embrace the long history of homosexualy and gay cisg the muny, ’s actually not. Begun by visual artist Carlos Motta and wrer and dramaturge Joshua Lub-Levy, Pet Mort: Rellectns of a Queer Public is a visual art project that charts the experienc of gay men cisg around New York Cy.

Extendg beyond the engaged sexual enunters, their project rerced the ia of cisg as not jt a ivolo act, but one wh ep polil roots, regnizg the foundatn of ristant and sexual liberatn the gay muny by givg permanence and legimacy to the spac their art. A central lotn what was known as “The Run” om the 1920s to the 1960s, Pershg Square was the anchor around which gay men uld cise and vis iendly lol like the bathrooms at the Central Library and the Subway Termal Buildg, and bars like the one the Biltmore Hotel. [4] Betta Boxall, “Neighbors Tackle Gay Cisg, ” Los Angel Tim,, 27 Augt 1997, [5] Mekahlo Meda, “No More Gay Cisg Signs Silver Lake, ” NBC Los Angel, 9 September 2011, [6] Bian Barragan, “Mappg Los Angel’s groundbreakg role LGBT history, ” Curbed Los Angel, 9 Febary 2017,.

The Silver Lake neighborhood uncil Thursday night unanimoly voted to remove "No Cisg" signs that have been up for nearly 20 years the heart of the gay muny. The signs were erected as a way to clamp down on "gay cisg" along Griffh Park Boulevard, Hypern Avenue and several other streets the neighborhood east of Hollywood. One of my film mentors, the late, great pneerg gay cric Rob Wood, ed to tell his stunts that he didn’t unrstand the ncept of “guilty pleasur” cema: you eher like the film or you don’t, and you shouldn’t feel guilty about the pleasure giv you.

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The movie also reads now, unavoidably, as mp (which I take great pleasure ), but also remas an accurate and signifint document of pre-AIDS gay life the liberatn era, and a remr of how difficult was, before the plague years, for people to e to terms wh their Hiller, a TV journeyman director who end up makg a number of Hollywood romantic blockbters (Love Story, Silver Streak), was also known for ser fare like The Man the Glass Booth and his masterpiece, The Hospal, a savage crique of stutnal healthre penned by Paddy Chayefsky.

Although ma-for-TV movi such as That Certa Summer had tackled the topic, que dargly, the seventi, there had been no Hollywood film up to that pot to addrs the “issue” of homosexualy so movie starts wh still imag of the three ma stars, Michael Ontkean (Zack), Kate Jackson (Claire) and Harry Haml (Bart), actors who had cut their teeth televisn (Ontkean and Jackson rned om their stt on The Rooki) and all, after the film was released, would largely return to TV. In a recent terview, Haml fers that his appearance this ntroversial, gay-themed movie may have end his film reer, and ed both actors wound up mostly dog televisn, Ontkean most notably his enarg and endurg turn as Sheriff Harry S. Jackson, of urse, had already achieved superstar stat as Sabra Dunn on the TV smash Charlie’s Angels the late ’ Love rolls out the gay angle a kd of ma-for-TV style that is helpfully obv for the cluels viewer s psychologil shorthand.

While Zack, the earnt young jock doctor, idl his sports r at a stoplight, who should pull up bi him but two geo gay clon on a motorcycle beg unfortably zy wh each other. They also watch An Affair to Remember on TV together, whose l they both know by heart, their love of classic Hollywood movi affirmg their soulful attachment, but belyg Zack’s reprsed homosexual tennci. Zack is also an empathetic doctor who mak hoe lls, visg late at night a female patient whose hband left her after her mastectomy spe Zack’s assurance that he wouldn’t, her anger toward Zack g him to drive post-haste to the clost gay cisg area.