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Masked balls and gay uprisings - gay history of Los Angeles in maps
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/22/queer-maps-lgbtq-website-tool-los-angelesA theater for masquerade balls and “vile orgies”. An all-night diner where gay teens once gathered. A bar for black lesbians who called themselves “hard dressers”.
These are some of the 800 historic LGBTQ institutionsthat have found new life this week with the launch of Queer Maps, an interactive website that has catalogued 150 years of gay history in the Los Angeles region.
the guide is at: http://queermaps.org/
This straight Angelino remembers many of these places - Circus Disco among them. I really miss El Conquistador in Silverlake.
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