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• DEEP ROUTES — Silver Lake, Industrial Strength Queer, Dublab & Metro Art
• "Masked balls and gay uprisings: Queer Maps is a guide to 150 years of LGBTQ history," The Guardian
• Queer Terrains, ONE Archives

Referenced by:

• "Who Wants a Hotel With a Hallway Anyway?" New York Times
• "Crazy, Noisy, Freaked-Out Dance Music for Weirdos," Getty Research Institute

Printed address guides used:

• Bob Damron Guide
• Data-Boy
• Gay Guide
• Barfly West
• Buck Rogers Happenings

Additional reading lists:

• Faderman, Lillian, and Stuart Timmons. Gay L.A.: a History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians. University of California Press, 2009
• Hurewitz, Daniel. Bohemian Los Angeles. University of California Press, 2007.
• Kenney, Moira Rachel. Mapping Gay L.A.: the Intersection of Place and Politics. Temple University Press, 2001.
• SurveyLA LGBT Historic Context Statement

Archives consulted:

• ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries
• June Mazer Lesbian Archives
• Los Angeles Conservancy

Challenges using published materials:

• Even if underground, many publications were from those with privilege, and printed and purchased by those who had the means to travel.
• Many queer or queer-serving businesses may have flourished without being detected or their address published. They may not have wished to be listed.
• These listings seem to skew predominantly gay white male, with establishments catering to ethnic demographics sometimes categorized as "special interest."
• There is a significantly disproportionate lack of lesbian, bisexual, trans* spaces that we have come across.
• There is a significantly disproportionate lack of QPOC spaces that we have come across.
• These listings could be anecdotal in nature. Someone may have reported a positive experience one night at a particular venue, and then it became listed as a LGBTQ space.
• Listings became too numerous after the mid-1980's. There are many more to include.

Additional material is individually attributed.

This map is not exhaustive in any way. It is not preferential in any way. It is strictly a direct result of cataloguing research. Please help us increase visibility for spaces not on here by contributing facts, images, and photographs.