At the same time as Forbes’ racist and sexist door policies were occurring, further east on Santa Monica Boulevard, a mere mile away from Studio One, Gene La Pietra’s Circus disco, and other gay dance clubs in Los Angeles, had no problem with all races and sexes dancing harmoniously together. Partiers at Studio One became a textbook intersectional example of how the oppressed can also become the oppressor. Shamefully, knowing all about these Jim Crow practices, every weekend a thousand gay men continued to patronize the disco. He made lukewarm promises to change but never followed through with them. In fact, he wanted only white gay men at the disco. Forbes’ feeble excuse was that if too many black gay men and women show up it would scare the white gay men away, an important observation itself on racism in WeHo. I forcefully confronted Forbes with Sheldon Andelson, a West Hollywood power broker, refereeing. The power elite in West Hollywood in the 1970’s knew all about these discriminatory practices and did nothing to stop them, indeed, many were investors in the club or were personal friends with Forbes. He set the racist and sexist policies and kept them going in spite of the protests because he could get away with it in WeHo. Scott Forbes, owner of Studio One, who set the racist and sexist policies for Studio One. It would be a smidgen less damning if Forbes had been willfully ignorant of the discrimination against blacks and women but it was worse than that-he was willfully aware. The owner of Studio One was Scott Forbes, a white gay man, a USC-trained optometrist. Today only 3% of its residents are black. Historically, West Hollywood has had a de facto policy of white preference with under the radar discriminatory practices in housing and other services, which continues right into the present. Hardly a weekend passed without at least some protesters being outside Studio One handing out informational leaflets about the disco’s discriminatory racist and sexist practices. Numerous protest demonstrations were held outside Studio One by Gay Liberationists, gay and lesbian community organizations, and black and women’s rights advocates. In the 1970’s, for politically aware gay men and women with a moral conscience it was also an embarrassment. It was a large, technoglitzy dancehall where 1000 could party at onetime. In a move to bring emotional resonance to a dry contract law case, the lawyer digs up an unexpected and complex web of race, power and oppression that forces everyone to examine long-buried prejudices they didn’t know they had.Studio One in West Hollywood.
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