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This article needs to be improved - does anyone want to expand it? Should I put a clean up? |>|>I think a cleanup is in order for the longer entries. It looks like someone copied their blog to this page. JedJedGould
Why was this Area written about as the Gay Community in Los Angeles. The "Gay" Communitty is West Hollywood. Silverlake is for hpsters and Alternative Artists...no matter what their Life Style is...besides Silver Lake is Still (as of this day in 2005) a Predominently Straight Latino Area...however the"Art community has a Comparitively large "Gay'population.
-Dave Teague
The gay commu"nitty"? Hehehehehe. That's rich. Made my bleepin' day. Love - the gay commUNITY in Silver Lake.
Silver Lake has been a major gay center longer than West Hollywood - in fact the gay rights movement began there. You're obviously not familiar with the area. The difference between the two, prior to gentrification bringing in hipster types and then yuppies, was that West Hollywood was upscale and virtually all white whereas Silver Lake gays tended to be working class and ethnically mixed, with a large Latino and Asian element. The Sunset Junction festival was originally a gay festival - gentrification has caused it to lose its gay identity. While there are certainly large numbers of gays who attend the festival, it is no longer a gay festival as it was in the 1980s. Ironically, the "alternative arts" community is starting to leave Silver Lake because it has become expensive, and are moving to Echo Park, Eagle Rock and Highland Park all of which are unquestionably "predominately straight Latino areas"
Yeah, I don't think there's much of an actual gay "community" per se in WeHo. It's the "Land of the Shirtless Male"; most of the gay men who live there are more interested in anonymous sex than in any sort of community-building. I'm sure the percentage of gay residents is higher in WeHo than in Silver Lake, but as far as social capital goes, Silver Lake is LA's gay center. It will be interesting to see if this is still the case 20 years from now, or whether it will have moved southeast (toward Echo Park and Chinatown) or northeast (into Atwater Village, Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Glassell Park, etc.) --Slightlyslack 21:20, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
Typically the two main "gay" areas of Los Angeles has always been West Hollywood and Silverlake. You can try to pretty-up the wording as much as you can but it basically falls into this category: West Hollywood is where all the "pretty" and well-to-do gay people live and Silverlake is where the older more alternative/leather-cultured gay people live. It's that simple and has been that way since as far back as I can remember. So you can think of Silverlake as the "Florida" for older gay Los Angelinos which also has a lot of 20/30-somethings with piercings. Artemisboy 21:06, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
I grew up in Silverlake, and it has been a haven for homosexuals certainly since the 50's when I was a child. In fact the old Disney Studios on Hyperion was once Mac's, a popular gay bathhouse that was shut down in 1988 due the rise of the AIDS epidemic. http://articles.latimes.com/1988-08-31/local/me-1204_1_gay-bathhouse. I often heard the area referred to as the Swish Alps by older gays in the area and it is reported to have arisen partly due to the prevalence of gays, such as Mack Sennett, in the early motion picture industry which was centered in the area. [1][2] Nesdon (talk) 05:38, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
I thought I posted a reliable source, I have added another. Tho' I'm not sure where the cites appear here on talk pages. There are two footnote cites above, but here they are in the body of this text: "Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians" Lillian Faderman, Stuart Timmons, and "Bohemian Los Angeles" Daniel Hurewitz, UCPress http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520256231[User:Nesdon|Nesdon]] (talk) 18:19, 12 April 2014 (UTC)Nesdon (talk) 18:27, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
References
I think the reference to Edendale is not quite accurate. I believe the Edendale name predates Ivanhoe, and doesn't exactly refer to Silver Lake, but to a historic district on its eastern edge, mostly in Echo Park. There's a new article on Edendale if you'd like to link. --TomChatt 07:56, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
which county is it in?
Silver Lake is a part of the city of Los Angeles which is in Los Angeles County --Freepablo 05:43, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Wait. Silver Lake is largely in 90039 and some parts in 90026? My impression was that it was evenly divided between the two. The Sunset Junction is in 90029. A small part of Silver Lake is in 90029.
I doubled checked on the zip code maps, and you're right. a few blocks are in 90029. and between 1/3 and 1/2 is in 90026. it's been corrected. --Daniel Romero Cruz 08:43, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Did Trotsky really live in Silver Lake ?? GG The Fly (talk) 01:39, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
I would be very interested in knowing the source of the statement that Hugo Reid first applied the name "Ivanhoe" to the Silver Lake area. This doesn't seem to be substantiated except by other websites, which also give no attribution. (If it is in Dakin's book, I missed it entirely.) It seems more likely that the name was first applied by the subdividers of the Ivanhoe tract (1887) and that the name of the reservoir followed. Nonetheless, the Reid story is intriguing and, if true, it would great to have it properly referenced. WMThomas (talk) 20:04, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
The reference to Hugo Reid as source for the name Ivanhoe came (unsourced) from a currently inactive website, silverlake.org. From there it has spread to Wikipedia and a book, The Silver Lake Chronicles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:648:8501:6840:0:0:0:99D (talk) 21:07, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
This section needs pruning per Wikipedia:Famous Residents. I have just removed all those persons who were not notable enough to have a WP article, but the remaining entries need checking against the other criteria, I suspect that a large number do not meet "The person's notability must derive from the location OR the person must have derived the basis for their notability in that location OR the person must hold some significance to the location in general". I also suspect that there are a lot of entries in the list who are notable but for whom residence cannot be verified so as to meet "residence must be verifiable through cited, reliable sources". Mfield (talk) 00:52, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
I am removing this again for the third time. It is highly inappropriate and considered self promotional to be adding an external link to your own blog and that is what User:Hottertoddy has admitted to doing here. Without establishment of notability and a direct link to the text of the article, then this link is considered spam. Mfield (talk) 02:11, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
and is linked to the LA Times, CNN, LAObserved, Aquafornia, LA Metblogs, Editor & Publisher and many other places. It is non-profit. I am a volunteer. I have never sold my work on this blog. I am a journalist in the LA Press Club. I have been published in over 200 newspapers and magazines. My blog is www.donnabarstow.com/park_blog
My blog has been deleted 3 times by Matt Fields. He is a photographer in Hollywood. His own photographs, which reference his work as a photographer, and are good publicity for him, are in Wiki. In other words, he publicizes his photographs on this site.
I suggest that my blog offers important information about pollution, the DWP, and the problems we have in Silver Lake. It should be listed with the other links on this page, most of which are self-serving websites about political groups in Silver Lake. I also believe that listing a gay sales site like Clubfly, which describes Silver Lake as a gay city, and points to all the leather bars, is a LITTLE more self-serving than my blog. Yet Matt apparently thinks that one is okay to stay. There is also a gay hospital advertised here. No other hospitals are listed.
Please let me know who reads this Talk page. If it is just Matt Fields I will obviously need to go further up. He is a problem. Hottertoddy (talk) 02:45, 1 August 2008 (UTC) Matt, you link to your own website, and also have your photos in Wiki. How appropriate is that?Hottertoddy (talk) 02:46, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
This is what I was afraid of. Only one person covers an entire city, Matt, and it's you?! How credible and notable is that?
I have no idea what you mean here: "the site provides a means of contact for attribution purposes." Have you ever looked at a blog? Do you understand that I have links there that say "Contact", just like a website does?
If Wiki does not understand Technorati, I feel sorry for them. Maybe this is why Wiki doesn't "get" blogs?? Technorati provides validation for any blog. It requires a lot of credibility and work to be linked to another blog, let me tell you. If you don't know it, perhaps you shouldn't be looking at blogs and making judgments... Here is a [link][1] to technorati: http://www.technorati.com/blogs/donnabarstow.com/park_blog/?reactions Sometimes Technorati is a little wonky, so you may have to refresh it a couple of times. There are 40 references there to my blog posts, sometimes 42 or 44, depending on the hour or how Tech feels at the moment. Hottertoddy (talk) 03:42, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
It's up to you whether to join the discussion, Dayewalker.
I understand more now, and thanks to everyone: it's kind of like a game. Somebody added a sentence recently that reads: The SL Residents Association, SL Improvement Association, Committee to Save SL's Reservoirs, the SL Chamber of Commerce and Neighbors for Peace & Justice are all active in the area. And then those groups got to add their links, is that it? So if I add an important piece of info about the polluted lake, then I get a link, too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hottertoddy (talk • contribs)
But what about the gay hospital, and the gay leather bars? They aren't mentioned in the article, so who will speak for them? Sad. Do you want to delete them, Mr. Field, or should I? Hottertoddy (talk) 04:37, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
What's with the photo? Why is this place "world famous?" It looks gratuitious or wrongly captioned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.207.240.4 (talk) 20:16, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Any idea why the "Contents" box is further down the page? Shouldn't it be above the "Geography" section? How do you shift it? 108.200.141.44 (talk) 01:24, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Is the district noted for its independently owned shops? Then there should be a source somewhere that will say so. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 03:46, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
The closing sentence in this sentence asserts that the high rate of singledom is due to the LGBT and hipster communities. While that may be partially true, it 1) places a value judgment, implying these populations neglect "family values" and 2) is unattributed. Would love to take out if there is no real reference. thanks--A21sauce (talk) 13:25, 5 August 2017 (UTC)