Greater LA
In Silver Lake, a gay biker bar for LA’s leather daddies
Hundreds of thousands of folks in the LGBTQ community will party and parade in West Hollywood in the name of equality this weekend.
By Steve Chiotakis • • 26m ListenHundreds of thousands of folks in the LGBTQ community will party and parade in West Hollywood in the name of equality this weekend. But before the party gets started, we're taking you a little farther east, to Silver Lake, which was once a center of gay life in LA.
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3 storiesHappily leather after at The Eagle in Silver Lake
In 1967, Silver Lake was ground zero for one of the first U.S. protests over police harassment of the gay community. This was two years before the Stonewall riots.
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