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Contents:
- LOS ANGEL GAY AND LBIAN CENTER - HIGHLAND ANNEX
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS LOS ANGEL
- THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
- GAY VILLAGE
LOS ANGEL GAY AND LBIAN CENTER - HIGHLAND ANNEX
Where to hang out Los Angel when you want to meet queer folks but don't want to roll up to the ual gay bars and clubs. * gay village los angeles *
The monstratn that’s memorated by the plaque stemmed om police raids that took place on New Year’s Eve 1967 at The Black Cat and other gay bars the area. ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archive | Photo: ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archive. ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archive.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS LOS ANGEL
Loted on the mp of the Universy of Southern California (USC), the ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archive is the world's largt rearch library dited to honor and archive LGBTQ+ history. The two-story mm serv as a time psule for historic years of queer culture, and also functns as LA's Downtown gay muny center—hostg exhibns, art shows and cematic screengs for both the USC stunt populatn and Los Angel at large.
The Mattache Steps | Photo: ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv, Facebook.
In the summer of 1948, gay activist Harry Hay clanstely began a group lled "Bachelors Anonymo" a private Silver Lake rince at 2328 Cove Ave. By 1950, the llective of men had bee Ameri's first official gay anizatn, the Mattache Society. Mattache was spiratnal as a major force the gay liberatn movement - not only Los Angel, but throughout the untry.
THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
It's the unofficial gay beach of Los Angel, but one vis to Will Rogers State Beach will prove the sandy lole is officially fun the sun. Playfully known as "Gger Rogers Beach, " Will Rogers wel hard bodi to play volleyball and mature men to relax and get a tan - gays of all shap and siz have been wele here sce the 1950s.
LA’s first trib that habed the area, the Tongva, believed gay marriag, transgenr liftyl and that homosexualy was termed utero.
The Tongva celebrated homosexuals as “two spired” people and thought of them more as gifted than as outsts. If you don’t know what that is, watch the acclaimed 2008 movie Milk, starrg Sean Penn an Osr-wng performance as gay rights activist and polician, Harvey Milk.
GAY VILLAGE
Opened 1923, the landmark Millennium Biltmore Hotel hosted a very gay-iendly bar through both World Wars and was the se of an early tone gay rights advancement. In 1971, the Biltmore hosted the Internatnal Psychologists & Psychiatrists nference, which was gog to clare electroshock therapy as the “cure” for homosexualy.
The meetg was dispted by the Gay Liberatn Front, which effectively forced one of the first dialogu between mental health profsnals and the gay muny.
Wh two years of that cint, “homosexualy” was removed as a mental disorr after s of stigma and official misclassifitn. Jewel’s was the first exclively gay and lbian dis for Ain-Amerins the untry.