WeHo Beme A Gay Mec. Here’s The History Behd That (And Other Headl) | LAist

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• 'REAL HOEWIV,' BUT MAKE GAY(ER): MTV TRODUC 'REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO'
• WEHO BEME A GAY MEC. HERE’S THE HISTORY BEHD THAT (AND OTHER HEADL)
• WEHO PRI FTIVI KICK OFF TODAY, ONE OF SEVERAL GAY PRI ACTIVI PLANNED L.A. AREA THIS MONTH
• ‘THE REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO’ PROV NOT ALL REPRENTATN IS GOODSEE/SKIPA GUI TO THE WEEK’S BT AND WORST TV SHOWS AND MOVI OM THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED CRICS.COLEMAN SPILENTERTAMENT CRICPUBLISHED JAN. 24, 2023 4:55AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST / GETTY / PARAMOUNTNOT SURE WHAT TO WATCH NEXT? SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED SEE SKIP NEWSLETTER HERE AND GET THE LATT SHOW AND MOVIE REMENDATNS EVERY TUDAY.THERE ARE ROUGHLY 47,000—OH, WA, A NEW NETFLIX ORIGAL JT DROPPED; MAKE THAT 47,001—TV SHOWS AND MOVI G OUT EACH WEEK. AT OBSSED, WE NSIR OUR SOCIAL DUTY TO HELP YOU SEE THE BT AND SKIP THE RT.WE’VE ALREADY GOT A VARIETY OF -PTH, EXCLIVE VERAGE ON ALL OF YOUR STREAMG FAVOR AND NEW RELEAS, BUT SOMETIM WHAT YOU’RE LOOKG FOR IS A SIMPLE DO OR DON’T. THAT’S WHY WE CREATED SEE/SKIP, TO TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT OUR WRERS THK YOU SHOULD SEE AND WHAT YOU N SKIP OM THE PAST WEEK’S CROWD ENTERTAMENT LANDSPE.SKIP: THE REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO THE REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO IS VAPID DRECK THAT ASSUM QUEER PEOPLE WOULD HAVE ANY TERT WATCHG SIX GAY FLUENCERS E TOGETHER TO TALK ABOUT THEMSELV FOR 42 MUT. IF I WANTED THAT, I’D LOER AT AN EQUOX DURG PRI MONTH.HERE’S COLEMAN SPIL’S TAKE:“NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS. THERE WAS NOT ONE SGLE PERSON THE WORLD WHO WAS LOOKG AT THE SPE OF REALY TELEVISN OFFERGS ACROSS THE WORLD AND THOUGHT TO THEMSELV, “YOU KNOW WHAT WE REALLY NEED? A SHOW ABOUT SIX NCEED GAY MEN TALKG ABOUT HOW GREAT THEY ARE, NONSTOP, FOR AN HOUR.” YET, THAT’S EXACTLY THE RUMPELSTILTSK CURSE WE’VE HAD FORCED UPON WH MTV’S NEWT SHOW, THE REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO, PREMIERG FRIDAY.WHAT ULTIMATELY LANDS ON OUR TELEVISNS ISN’T EVEN OFFENSIVE ENOUGH TO MAKE THE (EXTREMELY TACKY AND UNFUNNY) JOKE THAT THIS SHOW SETS THE GAY MUNY BACK BY 50 YEARS, BEE SIMPLY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH POWER TO DO SO. TO SET BACK PROGRS, YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO IMPOSE A THREAT. BUT NO ONE HERE IS VTED ENOUGH TO PUT THAT MUCH ENERGY TO THE SHOW. AT LEAST THE REAL HOEWIV HAVE THE GOOD SENSE TO STEP ON EACH OTHER’S NECKS TO GET TO THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHA; THE REAL FRIENDS N’T EE THEIR HEADS OM THEIR OWN ASS LONG ENOUGH TO MAKE THAT A POSSIBILY.”READ MORE.SKIP: SHRKGSHRKG IS AN SUFFERABLE THERAPY “EDY” THAT’S ABOUT AS FUNNY AS, WELL, ACTUALLY HAVG A BAD THERAPIST (WHO AMONG HASN’T HAD TO DISPUTE A PAY FOR DCHG A HACK SHRK?). HARRISON FORD, YOUR TIME IS PREC. DON’T SPEND ON APPLE TV+!HERE’S NICK SCHAGER’S TAKE:“YOU N FEEL THE URGE TO LGH SHRIVELG UP AND DYG WH EACH PASSG MUTE OF SHRKG, A NEW HALF-HOUR APPLE TV+ SERI OM JASON SEGEL, BILL LAWRENCE, AND TED LASSO’S BRETT GOLDSTE. PREMIERG JAN. 27, THE SERI IS ABOUT A GRIEVG THERAPIST WHO SHAK UP HIS LIFE, AND PRACTICE, BY LETTG PATIENTS KNOW PRECISELY HOW HE FEELS, AND THEN GETTG TENSELY VOLVED THEIR ISSU. BOASTG GRATG TURNS OM S OVERDOG- ST, SCRIPTS THAT ARE LIKE NAILS ON A CHALKBOARD, AND THE PARTICIPATN OF HARRISON FORD A ROLE, AND PROJECT, THAT’S BENEATH HIM, ’S THE NADIR OF ‘HIGH NCEPT’ EDY.PUTTG A FIGURATIVE PUNCTUATN MARK ON EVERY LE AND SCENE, SEGEL, WILLIAMS AND MILLER NEVER FAIL TO ELIC GROANS. FORD, ON THE OTHER HAND, MERELY MAK ONE SAD—NOT BEE HIS TURN IS PARTICULARLY MOVG (HE DO THE BT HE N WH A BROAD, TWO-DIMENSNAL CHARACTER), BUT BEE ’S PRSG TO SEE HIM STUCK WH SUBPAR MATERIAL THAT REQUIR HIM TO LERALLY GROWL WH DISPLEASURE AND ENTHIASTILLY SG ALONG TO SUGAR RAY’S ‘EVERY MORNG.’ EVEN WHEN BROUGHT LOW BY SCENARS THAT ARE STALE OR CLUNKY (OR BOTH!), THE LEGENDARY ACTOR REF TO UNDULY MUG, THEREBY PROVG TO BE THE ONLY ACTOR TO EMERGE RELATIVELY UNSTHED. STILL, FORD IS BETTER THAN SHRKG, AND SO TOO ARE MOST OTHER EDI CURRENTLY ON THE AIR.READ MORE.SEE: MISSGMISSG IS A SLEEK NEW ENTRY THE TOLD-ENTIRELY-ONLE MYSTERY GENRE THAT UPDAT THE CLASSIC MYSTERY FORMAT FOR A BRAND NEW DIENCE. FUNNY, IGHTENG, AND OH-SO MEME-WORTHY— SHOULD NOT BE AS GOOD AS IS!HERE’S FLETCHER PETERS’ TAKE:“MEDIA KEEPS GETTG TEENS WRONG. WHILE MAY SEEM RIDICULO WHEN SHOWS LIKE EUPHORIA PORTRAY SOME TEENS AS THROWG RIDICULOLY GIANT PARTI AND WEARG CLOWNISH OUTFS, BELIEVE OR NOT, A HANDFUL OF TEENS DO LIVE LIKE ALEXA DEMIE DO THE SHOW. THE FLT OUR STARS, TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE, AND THE KISSG BOOTH, THREE WONRFULLY CHEY ROMANCE FILMS, TRIED TO NVCE THAT TEENAGERS ARE EMOTNALLY MATURE ENOUGH TO FALL LOVE—AND THEY ARE! AND NOW, MISSG TRI TO PROVE TO THAT A YOUNG WOMAN WOULD BE ABLE TO SOLVE HER MOTHER’S DISAPPEARANCE ON HER OWN—AND, GUS WHAT? IT'S PLSIBLE.YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THE VIRAL VIO OF STORM REID YELPG ‘STOP SCROLLING!’ TO HER PHONE MERA, FILMED TO PROMOTE THE MOVIE. THE MEM ARE HILAR, A FACET OF THE TER WE’D PROBABLY SEE VIA JUNE’S SOCIAL MEDIA THE MOVIE IF WEREN’T AS FOCED ON THE MYSTERY. MISSG KNOWS HOW TO GRAB S DIENCE— UNRSTANDS WHAT FOLKS ON SOCIAL MEDIA FIXATE ON, FULLY PREHENDS HOW TEENS TEXT, AND KNOWS WHAT KD OF ELECTRIFYG ENIGMAS YOUNG DIENC WANT TO SEE. PL, STORM REID GETS MORE THAN THE FIVE MUT OF SCREEN TIME SHE GETS ON EUPHORIA HERE, AND THAT’S WELL-SERVED.READ MORE.SEE: THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHATHE LEGEND OF VOX MACHA SEASON 2 NTU THE SHOW’S DUNGEONS-AND-DRAGONS-FOR-DUMMI NCE, WH A GEOLY ANIMATED WORLD EXPANSN AND CLEVER TWISTS. AND, BON: YOU DON’T HAVE TO SPEND 12 HOURS READG THE L.HERE’S SHANNON O’CONNOR’S TAKE:“VOX MACHA IS BASED ON THE POPULAR DUNGEON & DRAGONS-ROLEPLAY WEB SERI CRIL ROLE, STARRG SOME OF THE VIO GAME AND ANIME DTRI’ MOST BELOVED VOICE ACTORS. IN 2015, IENDS (AND BELOVED VOICE ACTORS) LRA BAILEY, LIAM O’BRIEN, TALI JAFFE, ASHLEY JOHNSON, MARISHA RAY, SAM RIEGEL, TRAVIS WILLGHAM AND MATTHEW MERCER BROUGHT THEIR HOEHOLD DUNGEON & DRAGONS GAME TO THE TER. SCE THE BUT OF THE WEBSERI’ FIRST MPAIGN, WHICH THE IENDS ROLE-PLAY AND WISECRACK FOR HOURS AT A TIME, CRIL ROLE HAS BLOWN UP TO A CULTURAL PHENOMENON.AND LIKE ANY GOOD FANTASY-ADVENTURE, VOX MACHA BALANC S HEART AND HUMOR PERFECTLY. THE PCH-PERFECT EDIC TIMG OF THE ST HELPS LIVER SOME OF THE SHOW’S MOST HILAR ONE-LERS. ABPT MIL MOMENTS OM SNLAN—MIC IS PART OF HIS MAGIL POWERS, AFTER ALL—ARE ALWAYS A CROWD-PLEASER, WH SOME SURPRISG STAND-OUTS THIS SEASON.”READ MORE.SIGN UP FOR OUR SEE SKIP NEWSLETTER HERE TO FD OUT WHICH NEW SHOWS AND MOVI ARE WORTH WATCHG, AND WHICH AREN’T. COLEMAN SPIL

'REAL HOEWIV,' BUT MAKE GAY(ER): MTV TRODUC 'REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO'

The upg realy seri follows six gay iends Wt Hollywood, cludg celebry stylist Brad Gorki and sger Todrick st of "The Real Friends of WeHo, " om left: Curtis Haton, Dorión Rend, Brad Gorki, Todrick Hall, Jaym Vghan and Joey Keily / Courty of MTVJan.

5, 2023, 9:36 PM UTCGay men, who have arguably been the lifeblood of “The Real Hoewiv” fan base, will fally get a drama-filled realy TV show they n ll their own. 20 “The Real Friends of WeHo, ” which will follow six gay iends livg Los Angel' premiere gayborhood, Wt Hollywood.

WEHO BEME A GAY MEC. HERE’S THE HISTORY BEHD THAT (AND OTHER HEADL)

The gays go wt. It was a moment for me: a then-not out gay the LGBTQ+ muny, the spac are sacred bee there aren’t that many plac to ll our own. But WeHo wasn’t always the gay mec is now.

The gays go wtThe history of how Wt Hollywood beme a queer (and non-queer at this pot) statn dat back to the Prohibn era. It was illegal to drk back then, but was also illegal to be gay. (Private, nsensual gay sex was illegal California until 1976.

Eventually openly gay bars popped up Hollywood, like Jimmy’s Backyard and B.

WEHO PRI FTIVI KICK OFF TODAY, ONE OF SEVERAL GAY PRI ACTIVI PLANNED L.A. AREA THIS MONTH

A lot more queer spots — hotels, bars and other bs — started to open up WeHo, so much so that entreprenr and gay bar owner Bob Damran created gay guis the mid 1960s.

‘THE REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO’ PROV NOT ALL REPRENTATN IS GOODSEE/SKIPA GUI TO THE WEEK’S BT AND WORST TV SHOWS AND MOVI OM THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED CRICS.COLEMAN SPILENTERTAMENT CRICPUBLISHED JAN. 24, 2023 4:55AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST / GETTY / PARAMOUNTNOT SURE WHAT TO WATCH NEXT? SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED SEE SKIP NEWSLETTER HERE AND GET THE LATT SHOW AND MOVIE REMENDATNS EVERY TUDAY.THERE ARE ROUGHLY 47,000—OH, WA, A NEW NETFLIX ORIGAL JT DROPPED; MAKE THAT 47,001—TV SHOWS AND MOVI G OUT EACH WEEK. AT OBSSED, WE NSIR OUR SOCIAL DUTY TO HELP YOU SEE THE BT AND SKIP THE RT.WE’VE ALREADY GOT A VARIETY OF -PTH, EXCLIVE VERAGE ON ALL OF YOUR STREAMG FAVOR AND NEW RELEAS, BUT SOMETIM WHAT YOU’RE LOOKG FOR IS A SIMPLE DO OR DON’T. THAT’S WHY WE CREATED SEE/SKIP, TO TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT OUR WRERS THK YOU SHOULD SEE AND WHAT YOU N SKIP OM THE PAST WEEK’S CROWD ENTERTAMENT LANDSPE.SKIP: THE REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO THE REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO IS VAPID DRECK THAT ASSUM QUEER PEOPLE WOULD HAVE ANY TERT WATCHG SIX GAY FLUENCERS E TOGETHER TO TALK ABOUT THEMSELV FOR 42 MUT. IF I WANTED THAT, I’D LOER AT AN EQUOX DURG PRI MONTH.HERE’S COLEMAN SPIL’S TAKE:“NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS. THERE WAS NOT ONE SGLE PERSON THE WORLD WHO WAS LOOKG AT THE SPE OF REALY TELEVISN OFFERGS ACROSS THE WORLD AND THOUGHT TO THEMSELV, “YOU KNOW WHAT WE REALLY NEED? A SHOW ABOUT SIX NCEED GAY MEN TALKG ABOUT HOW GREAT THEY ARE, NONSTOP, FOR AN HOUR.” YET, THAT’S EXACTLY THE RUMPELSTILTSK CURSE WE’VE HAD FORCED UPON WH MTV’S NEWT SHOW, THE REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO, PREMIERG FRIDAY.WHAT ULTIMATELY LANDS ON OUR TELEVISNS ISN’T EVEN OFFENSIVE ENOUGH TO MAKE THE (EXTREMELY TACKY AND UNFUNNY) JOKE THAT THIS SHOW SETS THE GAY MUNY BACK BY 50 YEARS, BEE SIMPLY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH POWER TO DO SO. TO SET BACK PROGRS, YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO IMPOSE A THREAT. BUT NO ONE HERE IS VTED ENOUGH TO PUT THAT MUCH ENERGY TO THE SHOW. AT LEAST THE REAL HOEWIV HAVE THE GOOD SENSE TO STEP ON EACH OTHER’S NECKS TO GET TO THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHA; THE REAL FRIENDS N’T EE THEIR HEADS OM THEIR OWN ASS LONG ENOUGH TO MAKE THAT A POSSIBILY.”READ MORE.SKIP: SHRKGSHRKG IS AN SUFFERABLE THERAPY “EDY” THAT’S ABOUT AS FUNNY AS, WELL, ACTUALLY HAVG A BAD THERAPIST (WHO AMONG HASN’T HAD TO DISPUTE A PAY FOR DCHG A HACK SHRK?). HARRISON FORD, YOUR TIME IS PREC. DON’T SPEND ON APPLE TV+!HERE’S NICK SCHAGER’S TAKE:“YOU N FEEL THE URGE TO LGH SHRIVELG UP AND DYG WH EACH PASSG MUTE OF SHRKG, A NEW HALF-HOUR APPLE TV+ SERI OM JASON SEGEL, BILL LAWRENCE, AND TED LASSO’S BRETT GOLDSTE. PREMIERG JAN. 27, THE SERI IS ABOUT A GRIEVG THERAPIST WHO SHAK UP HIS LIFE, AND PRACTICE, BY LETTG PATIENTS KNOW PRECISELY HOW HE FEELS, AND THEN GETTG TENSELY VOLVED THEIR ISSU. BOASTG GRATG TURNS OM S OVERDOG- ST, SCRIPTS THAT ARE LIKE NAILS ON A CHALKBOARD, AND THE PARTICIPATN OF HARRISON FORD A ROLE, AND PROJECT, THAT’S BENEATH HIM, ’S THE NADIR OF ‘HIGH NCEPT’ EDY.PUTTG A FIGURATIVE PUNCTUATN MARK ON EVERY LE AND SCENE, SEGEL, WILLIAMS AND MILLER NEVER FAIL TO ELIC GROANS. FORD, ON THE OTHER HAND, MERELY MAK ONE SAD—NOT BEE HIS TURN IS PARTICULARLY MOVG (HE DO THE BT HE N WH A BROAD, TWO-DIMENSNAL CHARACTER), BUT BEE ’S PRSG TO SEE HIM STUCK WH SUBPAR MATERIAL THAT REQUIR HIM TO LERALLY GROWL WH DISPLEASURE AND ENTHIASTILLY SG ALONG TO SUGAR RAY’S ‘EVERY MORNG.’ EVEN WHEN BROUGHT LOW BY SCENARS THAT ARE STALE OR CLUNKY (OR BOTH!), THE LEGENDARY ACTOR REF TO UNDULY MUG, THEREBY PROVG TO BE THE ONLY ACTOR TO EMERGE RELATIVELY UNSTHED. STILL, FORD IS BETTER THAN SHRKG, AND SO TOO ARE MOST OTHER EDI CURRENTLY ON THE AIR.READ MORE.SEE: MISSGMISSG IS A SLEEK NEW ENTRY THE TOLD-ENTIRELY-ONLE MYSTERY GENRE THAT UPDAT THE CLASSIC MYSTERY FORMAT FOR A BRAND NEW DIENCE. FUNNY, IGHTENG, AND OH-SO MEME-WORTHY— SHOULD NOT BE AS GOOD AS IS!HERE’S FLETCHER PETERS’ TAKE:“MEDIA KEEPS GETTG TEENS WRONG. WHILE MAY SEEM RIDICULO WHEN SHOWS LIKE EUPHORIA PORTRAY SOME TEENS AS THROWG RIDICULOLY GIANT PARTI AND WEARG CLOWNISH OUTFS, BELIEVE OR NOT, A HANDFUL OF TEENS DO LIVE LIKE ALEXA DEMIE DO THE SHOW. THE FLT OUR STARS, TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE, AND THE KISSG BOOTH, THREE WONRFULLY CHEY ROMANCE FILMS, TRIED TO NVCE THAT TEENAGERS ARE EMOTNALLY MATURE ENOUGH TO FALL LOVE—AND THEY ARE! AND NOW, MISSG TRI TO PROVE TO THAT A YOUNG WOMAN WOULD BE ABLE TO SOLVE HER MOTHER’S DISAPPEARANCE ON HER OWN—AND, GUS WHAT? IT'S PLSIBLE.YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THE VIRAL VIO OF STORM REID YELPG ‘STOP SCROLLING!’ TO HER PHONE MERA, FILMED TO PROMOTE THE MOVIE. THE MEM ARE HILAR, A FACET OF THE TER WE’D PROBABLY SEE VIA JUNE’S SOCIAL MEDIA THE MOVIE IF WEREN’T AS FOCED ON THE MYSTERY. MISSG KNOWS HOW TO GRAB S DIENCE— UNRSTANDS WHAT FOLKS ON SOCIAL MEDIA FIXATE ON, FULLY PREHENDS HOW TEENS TEXT, AND KNOWS WHAT KD OF ELECTRIFYG ENIGMAS YOUNG DIENC WANT TO SEE. PL, STORM REID GETS MORE THAN THE FIVE MUT OF SCREEN TIME SHE GETS ON EUPHORIA HERE, AND THAT’S WELL-SERVED.READ MORE.SEE: THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHATHE LEGEND OF VOX MACHA SEASON 2 NTU THE SHOW’S DUNGEONS-AND-DRAGONS-FOR-DUMMI NCE, WH A GEOLY ANIMATED WORLD EXPANSN AND CLEVER TWISTS. AND, BON: YOU DON’T HAVE TO SPEND 12 HOURS READG THE L.HERE’S SHANNON O’CONNOR’S TAKE:“VOX MACHA IS BASED ON THE POPULAR DUNGEON & DRAGONS-ROLEPLAY WEB SERI CRIL ROLE, STARRG SOME OF THE VIO GAME AND ANIME DTRI’ MOST BELOVED VOICE ACTORS. IN 2015, IENDS (AND BELOVED VOICE ACTORS) LRA BAILEY, LIAM O’BRIEN, TALI JAFFE, ASHLEY JOHNSON, MARISHA RAY, SAM RIEGEL, TRAVIS WILLGHAM AND MATTHEW MERCER BROUGHT THEIR HOEHOLD DUNGEON & DRAGONS GAME TO THE TER. SCE THE BUT OF THE WEBSERI’ FIRST MPAIGN, WHICH THE IENDS ROLE-PLAY AND WISECRACK FOR HOURS AT A TIME, CRIL ROLE HAS BLOWN UP TO A CULTURAL PHENOMENON.AND LIKE ANY GOOD FANTASY-ADVENTURE, VOX MACHA BALANC S HEART AND HUMOR PERFECTLY. THE PCH-PERFECT EDIC TIMG OF THE ST HELPS LIVER SOME OF THE SHOW’S MOST HILAR ONE-LERS. ABPT MIL MOMENTS OM SNLAN—MIC IS PART OF HIS MAGIL POWERS, AFTER ALL—ARE ALWAYS A CROWD-PLEASER, WH SOME SURPRISG STAND-OUTS THIS SEASON.”READ MORE.SIGN UP FOR OUR SEE SKIP NEWSLETTER HERE TO FD OUT WHICH NEW SHOWS AND MOVI ARE WORTH WATCHG, AND WHICH AREN’T. COLEMAN SPIL

But this gay-iendly area had s own discrimatory practic.

Gay Boi mec of southern liforniaLets go clubb Wehoby Meow Febary 16, 2004FlagGet the WeHo boySomeone of high stat Wt Hollywood, California. ”by tutight May 23, 2018FlagGet the WeHo boy regularA celebry (most often a man) that is not out to the public but often seen Wt Hollywood, ually gay has really bee que the weho regular, hasn't he? Much like the Castro to San Francis or Boystown to Chigo, this statn, clared an official cy 1984 wh a populatn of jt over 36, 000 as of 2020, is historilly known as one of the untry's most proment and still thrivg "gayborhoods, " wh many inic and endurg LGBTQ nightlife spots along wh recent addns.

Instantly regnizable thanks to artist Chris Burn's Instagram-ready outdoor "Urban Light" streetlamp stallatn, The Los Angel County Mm of Art (LACMA) is the wt ast's largt art mm and bis s ep permanent llectn featur cuttg edge, novative, and multimedia tourg exhibns: openly gay Black artist Keh Wiley's inic portra of Barack Obama and Amy Sherald's Michelle Obama will be on display om November 5, 2021 until January 2, 2022. A WeHo landmark, Circ of Books closed 2019—a Netflix documentary chronicl s storied and very LGBTQ past—but drag queen and gay porn film director Chi Chi LaRue revived the space as Chi Chi LaRue's Circ 2020 as a lorful, upmarket store that clus adult goods, accsori, and well-curated selectns of ffee-table tom and lol art. Hollywood skre gu to the stars sce the 1970s (clients have clud Barbra Streisand, Ellen DeGener, Cher, Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Elton John, David Bowie, and Kylie Mogue), the Denmark-born, openly gay Ole Henriksen opened a namake WeHo Spa off Sunset Boulevard 1998, and remas a favore, discreet, zy oasis for sk and body pamperg treatments wh his excellent le of products today.