Gay airbnb los angeles

Go Out & About with THE LAVENDER EFFECT on an Airbnb Social Impact Experience. We currently offer Southern California locals and visitors 2 Guided LGBTQ+ Heritage Walking Tours of Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) and West Hollywood (WeHo).

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LGBTQ History

Like many LGBTQ havens in the US, the Los Angeles queer community started to blossom in the wake of World War II. While the silver screen attracted plenty of queer folk to the city in years to come, Hollywood’s celluloid closet spent a lot of energy censoring homosexuality and forcing queer individuals to lead clandestine lifestyles. Raids on queer bars were frequent in the s and s, and living as an “out” member of society was a dangerous and alienating shape of resistance.

Regardless, the Metropolis of Angels was still a leader in the early fight for LGBTQ rights. The first womxn loving womxn magazine, Vice Versa, was published in by Lisa Ben, a secretary at the now-defunct RKO Studios. The Mattachine Society, one of the country’s earliest gay organizations, was founded in Silver Lake in Two major precursors to New York’s Stonewall Riots — the Coopers Donuts riot of , and a peaceful protest against po