Venice Pride’s biggest accomplishment was yet to come. A year later Venice Pride unveiled the Venice Pride Flag Lifeguard Tower, scored the first NFL team in history to sponsor an LGBT Pride event, promoted the opening of a new gay bar in Santa Monica, The Birdcage. Venice’s first Pride celebration took place on June 3, 2016, in an effort to protect an LGBTQ community at risk of extinction due to Roosterfish’s exit. A decade later it too would shutter forcing an orphaned community to ponder their place West of the 405. Over the years businesses serving the neighborhood came and went, but by 2006 Roosterfish (est. Among them The Friendship, Tropical Village, Jack’s at the Beach, and the Crystal Baths. Decades before West Hollywood’s birth, L.A.’s coastal region was an inclusive oasis home to no fewer than ten gay bars and bathhouses in the ’40s and ‘50s. For nearly 100 years Los Angeles’ Westside has been known as a place that celebrates differences.
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