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1970s Gay Urbanism 2
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-01 at 4.42.58 PM_thumb.png2023-04-01T23:43:15+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Dancing at Studio One in West Hollywood, Mid 1970s. In Los Angeles, “white flight” had cleared older areas for gays and lesbians, creating cheap land and more tolerant zoning. The early gay-rights movement took advantage of this phenomenon, finding a place in urban America to establish itself by merging civil rights activism with place-making. In L.A., that place was West Hollywood – an island of unincorporated county jurisdiction between the municipalities of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, and already home to entertainment establishments dating from the heyday of the Sunset Strip. While Latinos transformed East Los Angeles by painting murals (among other design interventions), gays and lesbians transformed West Hollywood by opening bars, clubs, discos, and bathhouses.plain2023-04-01T23:43:15+00:00mid 1970sGina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49