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Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, Chaiken’s show did, in fact, reflect the WeHo population with relative accuracy.Īlex Vega, Design Director of, moved to Los Angeles in October 2010 with two lesbian friends from the city, but they eventually settled on a house in the East Hollywood/Silverlake area. WeHo’s rep as Sapphic Central went national when our dear Ilene F*cking Chaiken debuted West-Hollywood-based The L Word - which garnered disdain amongst the lesbian community for its unrealistic portrayal of lesbians. Also, anthropologists have reported mating rites including creamed corn wrestling, below:
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WeHo’s been the epicenter of the upper-crust of lesbian society - the “polished,” wealthy, impossibly good-looking lesbians who sleep with closeted movie stars/each other (see also: The Chart), throw parties in expensive swimming pools and have dramatic fights which result in the physical destruction of expensive cars and/or fine art, and pursue power lesbianism with aplomb. West Hollywood is unique amongst gay villages insofar as its nightlife is hardly boys-only.
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“Gays have money here and its’ a super-hip place to live - you live there if you can find a good deal or if you have money.” “West Hollywood is super expensive already,” Haviland Stillwell, an actress and singer who’s lived in West Hollywood and the surrounding area since 2008, told Autostraddle. Some fear “the city is increasingly catering to middle-class families, rather than young people who want to let loose.”īut what say the young people who want to let loose?
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On Tuesday residents will face six challengers (looking to oust three incumbents) running on platforms “invoking concerns about development and gentrification pushing out younger gay residents and the edgier elements that have long distinguished West Hollywood.” Scott Schmidt, one of the six challengers, says he’s concerned that without proper action, WeHo could become “no different than Beverly Hills or Calabasas.” Crime rates are down drastically, and the city has embarked on a huge project to rebuild a public parking garage, a library and a park.įurthermore, there are plans to replace a drug rehab center with a playground and the city recently banned smoking on restaurant patios. Amid a recession that has plunged so many governments into budget crises, West Hollywood has a surplus of more than $50 million. Today, West Hollywood, where an estimated 40 percent of residents are gay, is a boomtown. During Prohibition, when it was a two-square-mile slice of unincorporated Los Angeles County, mobsters set up casinos and nightclubs where alcohol was served in back rooms beyond the reach of the Los Angeles police, and in the 1970s gay men started opening bars here. Since long before its founding in 1984, West Hollywood has offered a haven for social outsiders and illicit nightlife. In 1985 it became one of the nation’s first cities to provide equal rights for domestic & married partners in the city. The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Timeįounded 26 years ago by gay activists, WeHo has always been “the country’s closest approximation of a gay city” with a mostly gay City Council.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.