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THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
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Consired the first of s kd, the BCC me to un only a few years after the Stonewall rts and not a moment too soon: Ls than 10 years later, would fd self supportg s muny through the heartache and hardships of the AIDS epimic that took several of s 1994, Beth Chayim Chadashim appoted Rabbi Lisa Edwards to the posn of head rabbi, makg her BCC's first openly gay rabbi at ordatn to lead the temple. Rirdo DeAratanha/Los Angel Tim/Getty ImagThe Mattache StepsSilver LakeIn 1948, gay activist Harry Hay held meetgs for a secret group lled Bachelor’s Anonymo out of his Silver Lake home.
Some women were ved to jo the meetgs, but the llective maly clud gay men and trans people were exclud anizatn gaed populary throughout California, but Hay’s leftist polics led to him beg oted 1953. Unr his learship, however, some members found ONE Magaze, the first natnally-distributed gay and lbian magaze. The llectn is the marriage of activist Jim Kepner’s Internatnal Gay & Lbian Archiv and the ONE Instute.
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In the late ’60s, beme sentially the Soho Hoe of s time, The Factory, fund by movie stars and 1974, entered s most popular era as an famo gay dis club.
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Facg outsized discrimatn om both the police and whe-domated queer spac, the cy’s queer Black muny found safe haven on Catch One’s dance years of service to the Black LGBTQIA+ muny later, beme the longt-nng Black gay bar before shutterg 2015. Co-founr and gay rights in Charl “Chuck” Rowland found Celebratn Theatre 1982.
It’s currently the natn’s olst, ntuoly producg LGBTQIA+ theatre yieldg works om gay and lbian the salac world premiere of Naked Boys Sgg to beg the statn for a Los Angel premiere for queer plays buted New York or London, like Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the theatre is an tegral part of queer dramaturgy. Bob Humphri of the Uned Stat Missn, Morris Kight of the Gay Liberatn Front, and Rev. After bouncg around flexible spac, s first official church took root near USC lotn also hoed early meetgs for Temple Beth Chayim Chadashim, which claims is “the world’s first synagogue found by and for lbians and gay men.
In ls than four years sce s foundg 1968, MCC, the first church wh an outreach to gays and lbians, had grown to 15, 000 members 40 U.