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- WEHO PRI FTIVI KICK OFF TODAY, ONE OF SEVERAL GAY PRI ACTIVI PLANNED L.A. AREA THIS MONTH
- DISNEY’S ‘THE LTLE MERMAID’ STAR MELISSA MCCARTHY HONORED AT WT HOLLYWOOD GAY PRI PARA FEATURG EXPLIC BDSM SEX ACTS
WEHO PRI FTIVI KICK OFF TODAY, ONE OF SEVERAL GAY PRI ACTIVI PLANNED L.A. AREA THIS MONTH
After a two-year panmic-duced hiat, this year’s LA Pri will break away om that tradn, movg to Hollywood Boulevard, where the world’s first permted gay para took place 1970.
The chang prompted gay parents group Pop Luck Club to send out an email to supporters statg, “There is some nfn, sce WeHo Pri and LA Pri are each producg paras this year” and notg that they were participatg WeHo Pri. This year’s Pri at a ght time for LGBTQ rights, wh trans people unr attack many stat and fears that gay marriage might be danger given the more rtrictive views of the Supreme Court. Jimmy's Backyard, a short-lived speakeasy tucked away on Cosmo Street Hollywood, opened 1929 and was one of LA's first openly gay bars.
DISNEY’S ‘THE LTLE MERMAID’ STAR MELISSA MCCARTHY HONORED AT WT HOLLYWOOD GAY PRI PARA FEATURG EXPLIC BDSM SEX ACTS
Durg the Prohibn era, speakeasi beme a popular avenue for gay-d the “Pansy Craze” between the late 1920s and early 1930s, drag shows (before they had that name) were gag unrground populary. Jimmy’s Backyard, one of Hollywood’s first openly gay bars that opened on New Year’s Eve 1929, along wh B. Listen: When LA's Gays Went Wt.
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Government officials began to view the populary of “impersonator” (drag) revu — and by extensn the visibly gay muny — as part of what plunged the cy to bad enomic tim, acrdg to historil someone was nvicted of “masqueradg” (drsg drag), they uld be charged a fe or required to serve a 10-day jail stt 1930. “So, I thk that was why Wt Hollywood beme ‘the gay spot’ … was an pe om the real vicns of the LAPD. Lbians and gay men flocked there to fd nnectn, live more openly and be the film the silent film era, one of s hight paid actrs, Alla Nazimova, beme a bisexual in by turng a hotel to a sapphic hub.