It looks like the L.A. Board of Public Works has served the Sunset Junction Street Fair a final, fatal bitch slap and forced the cancellation of the long-running gay-friendly festival, so many gay Angelenos find themselves without any plans for the weekend.
And to think, you were so excited to hear Hanson perform “Mmmbop!”
How should L.A. gays spend the $20 they planned to fork over for access to the festival grounds (a.k.a a cordoned-off section of Sunset Boulevard)? Our sister site, GayCities.com,has complied ten ways to have a great time this weekend for just two sawbucks. Go over and check it out: You never know when you might find yourself in L.A. with lots of time and not a lot of cash.
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So Yo
Last year was the first year I went to Sunset Junction, but I looked to me that it stopped being an event for the Silverlake gay and Latino community a long ass time ago.
BlogShag
They didn’t have enough money to make it happen this year
Spike
The only thing gay about Sunset Junction was the fact that The Eagle was located within the fences. It stopped being a gay/latin community event years ago, but figures Queerty would only be picking up on that now.
Nonbreeder
In a way, it is good it’s gone, because it was CREATED for gays and latinos, and in fact it was a success at bringing them together. I moved here in 1999 just as the best years were coming to an end. As of 2012 it is a grotesque crowd of Free Credit Score .com-commercial looking straight white hipsters. It’s a big blur of ginger bearded brown corduroy wearing people looking like geeks on purpose. Not a trace of what made this place great for decades and none of them care either.
Rents have tripled and there are babies everywhere. Deeply depressing. If it weren’t for rent control I would have left about 3 years ago. Le Barcito, our own Stonewall of 1967, two years before New York’s, has been gutted as has the original vintage building where the first Different Light was located.