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Club Flamingo performers

Club Flamingo: Did Mobster Mickey Cohen Own a Popular West Hollywood Drag Palace?

Previous Next Scan of a Club Flamingo program provided by JD Doyle at Queer Music Heritage. The Rarest of Birds […]

Anti-gay sign formerly at Barney's Beanery

Sign of the Times: Infamous ‘Fagots Stay Out’ Sign Was Displayed at Barney’s Beanery for Years

This story was originally published in June 2013. A crudely made, handwritten, misspelled sign played a remarkable role in the […]

Cafe Internationale: Historic Sunset Strip Lesbian Bars

Cafe Internationale was owned and operated by Elmer and Tess Wheeler and catered to women. It opened around 1936 in […]

Jane Jones (right) from 'One Way Passage'

Jane Jones’ Little Club – Historic Sunset Strip Lesbian Bars

In the first half of the 20th century the Sunset Strip was home to quite a few gay bars, including […]

Drag Star the ‘Creole Fashion Plate’ Debuts on the Sunset Strip in 1932

On Sept. 21, 1932, Karyl Norman (né: George Paduzzi), a cross-dressing performer who billed himself as “the Creole Fashion Plate”, […]

West Hollywood Pride parade watchers on Hugo's roof

The Gay Rights Movement and the Push for Cityhood

The vote by local residents in 1984 to establish West Hollywood as a city was a years-long effort by an […]

Bruz Fletcher’s Camp Style at Club Bali

Bruz Fletcher was a society piano man in the 1930s who was known for lyrics that were laden with gay […]

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