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First published in 1965, Bob Damron's Address Book helped LGBT travelers navigate a Los Angeles where intolerance often trumped acceptance.
Endorsed by New Deal-era federal housing policy, "redlining" encouraged housing inequality in U.S. cities.
From the mid-1960s into the 1980s, Los Angeles was home to sustained queer activism that sought to protect and house the vulnerable.
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See how the many restrictions many Angelenos had to navigate, exposing Los Angeles as a place of coded segregation and resistance.
At a time when aspiring motion picture players were flocking to Los Angeles, this new organization streamlined the casting process, but it also marginalized nonwhite actors.
The early film industry was a creative Wild West, open to anyone with the means and the boldness to exploit the new technology of motion pictures.
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The early film industry was a creative Wild West, open to anyone with means to exploit it.
Although we most often associate filmmaking with Southern California, the Bay Area has long been a site of movie magic.
Hollywood's struggles with diversity long predate #OscarsSoWhite.
Why did the film industry choose to locate in L.A.? Thank the weather – as well as the city's open-shop, anti-union labor policies.
In early Hollywood, women outnumbered men as stars; they also wrote, publicized, directed, edited, and produced films in numbers unequaled until the 1980s – or beyond.
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Los Angeles is often identified with Hollywood, but there's more to the entertainment industry than its facade of movie stars and blockbuster films.