It also can be argued that the ongoing expansion of just what queerness can mean could have made a segment of gay bars, which thrived in a sort of self-identified exclusivity, obsolete. The closing of many east-side gay bars can be blamed, in part, on gentrification’s effect on rents. The Eagle is my regular bar, and I’m thrilled to have it.” But I don’t want to completely dog what we have left. You have three bars on the east side that people go to: the Eagle, Akbar, and the Faultline. It’s lost some of the freakishness and the weirdos, which I miss. Now things are much more concentrated and assimilated. You would make the rounds rather than just go to one place. in the early ’90s, there were more than a dozen on the east side. “As Silver Lake - and the whole landscape of gay Hollywood and the east side - changed so much I always had this idea in my head of turning the place back into Cuffs for one night,” he says. Jonesy, along with a group of artistic collaborators, threw a party last summer that re-created Cuffs in the same space it once inhabited, now home to the Hyperion Tavern. Working there was a real challenge,” he says with a laugh, “especially when you were trying to clean up using a tiny penlight.” “Bar service stopped at 2 but they kept it open until 3 and the lights went out for that final hour. (One Archives at the USC Libraries)Ĭuffs “was incredibly dark and super cruisey,” Jonesy recalls. Follow her attempts to have it all on Twitter at LinaLecaro and on Facebook.Ripples matchbook cover.
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The fetish community is a loyal bunch and clearly they like to stay tied in (and up!) with like-minded denizens. Some have been short-lived, but most continue to thrive to this day. promoters have stepped up and thrown spanking good soirees in his wake, incorporating DJs and dancing with kinky performance art and envelope-pushing imagery. He passed away last year, but had ceased throwing his parties several years prior. Widely recognized as bringing the S&M lifestyle and aesthetic above ground, promoter James Stone (Club Fuck) and The Fetish Ball (with Joseph Brooks) is often cited as its first and foremost champion in Los Angeles. While fetishism has been around for decades (Bettie Page being one its biggest stars in the '50s), it wasn’t until around the early '90s when its presence in the nightclub scene became prevalent.