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That is 37% of the total population and over 13,000 men. The survey was designed to guide social services programming. The high end of the range comes from a 2013 city survey. The low end of the range is an approximation based on census and other public survey data. The report suggests that between 30% and 40% of the city’s adults are gay men. There are also same-sex marriage data-quality issues involving opposite-sex couples who accidentally mismark the sex of one spouse, putting themselves in the same-sex category. There are limitations on the availability of some Census data for small cities. The Census survey that provides detailed West Hollywood data does not ask about sexual orientation, and the surveys that do ask do not focus on West Hollywood.
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Census and city survey data.įinding Census-like numbers about the city’s gay community is challenging. That is according to a new report by WeHo by the Numbers, based on U.S. But I think I just want to become a customer again.West Hollywood has more gay men than many California cities have residents. There’s the stress because I have to be here all the time. Grossi said he loved managing Eleven, but the job is stressful. “During the week, the food component is terrible –a money loser.” “Our weekends are the best they’ve ever been,” he said of the bar business. Grossi said a recent remodeling of Eleven gave a boost to his nightclub business but that the restaurant business still suffered. One bar, Rage, recently changed hands with its new owner promising to revamp its entertainment offerings to bring back the gay crowd it had lost. Later it housed the Larrabee Sound Studio where performers such as Cher, Donna Summer, Patti La Belle and Prince did recordings.īusiness owners in the Boystown area have complained about a decline in business in recent years. The historic 1922 building was designed by Beverly Hills architect Asa Hudson and once housed the First National Bank of Sherman, which was the original name of the area that eventually became West Hollywood. at Larrabee, in February 2007 with a party hosted by Beyonce and People magazine. Grossi opened Eleven, which is at 8811 Santa Monica Blvd. “Places that have a set identity do better.” “I think one of the problems we have here, we didn’t have a set identity,” he said, noting that bars and nightclubs in the city’s Boystown neighborhood typically feature various themed nights orchestrated by outside promoters. Squatriglia and Barnes, who is her boyfriend, have said they want to open Flaming Saddles bars in gay neighborhoods across the country.
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Flaming Saddles is owned by Jacqui Squatriglia and Chris Barnes, whose Flaming Saddles bar on Ninth Avenue in New York City has been described by The New York Times as “a homage to a frontier-town saloon, or perhaps to the set of ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ (and having) a down-home sensibility rooted in a kind of nostalgia for places where the cowboys are real.” One crucial permit, from the state Board of Alcohol and Beverage Control, already has been granted to Flaming Saddles WeHo LLC. The sale price reportedly is $1.5 million. Grossi said the sale only will be finalized if the buyers are able to get the necessary permits from the city and state agencies. “I still don’t have everything worked out, but it looks like it’s going to happen,” said Richard Grossi, who opened Eleven in 2007. The interior of Flaming Saddles, a gay country/western bar on Ninth Avenue at 53rd Street in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen.Įleven Restaurant and Nightclub, a well-known gay venue in West Hollywood’s Boystown, is in the process of being sold to a couple known for their Country/Western gay bar in New York City.