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1970s Gay Urbanism 3
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-01 at 4.44.16 PM_thumb.png2023-04-01T23:45:08+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Gay Community Services Center, 1971. Nothing brought the LGBTQ community together like dancing – especially among African-American and Latino gays and lesbians – and L.A. was the epicenter of this phenomenon. Dance clubs appeared virtually overnight, transforming warehouses, storefronts, and tiny bars – the places from which emerged the city’s DJ culture. Because the gays and lesbians of West Hollywood – like the Latinos of Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles – were not then a particularly wealthy community, they had to work with the existing landscapes they inherited. West Hollywood’s cheap land, easy construction, and lack of urban design codes made possible its transformation into a gay utopia.plain2023-04-01T23:45:08+00:001971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49