During this time, underused storefronts and warehouses with low rents became intimate dance clubs by night-often, as Rojas points out, in spaces smaller than 3,000 square feet.įor Rojas and his friends, who grew up in East LA, the small nightclubs became refuges from the expectations of family and community:
West Hollywood has long been the rainbow-draped capital of the gay community in Los Angeles, but in an article for KCET, city planner James Rojas describes the diverse and somewhat under-the-radar gay disco circuit of 1970s Hollywood.
