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West Hollywood has long been the rainbow-draped capital of the gay community in Los Angeles, but in an article for KCETcity planner James Rojas describes the diverse and somewhat under-the-radar gay disco circuit of s Hollywood. During this time, underused storefronts and warehouses with low rents became intimate dance clubs by night—often, as Rojas points out, in spaces smaller than 3, square feet.

For Rojas and his friends, who grew up in East LA, the small nightclubs became refuges from the expectations of family and community:. The popular disco formed in response to prejudice within the gay community, as one of its founders told LA Weekly in Now, developers are razing most of the structure to make way for a large mixed-use project.

He describes the restaurant and popular pickup spot as exemplifying the, "quiet world of mainstream gay white culture. Cities Atlanta Austin Boston.

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