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 […]
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’ 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”, […]
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 […]