“West Hollywood is having an identity crisis. But what were they doing here in the middle of Boys Town, the beating heart of gay L.A.? And more to the point, how many more busloads of frat kids can Boys Town take before it starts to lose its gay soul? ![]() Anywhere else - Hollywood, Santa Monica, the Sunset Strip - the sight of so many exuberantly heterosexual merrymakers would not have raised an eyebrow. The party, “Black and Bling,” was a joint effort by four USC sororities and fraternities, tossed to celebrate a few birthdays. The girls were followed, like ducklings, by an unsteady line of insouciant frat boys. The doors whooshed open and what poured out was a sight to behold: Skinny sorority girls with long, straight hair, short black dresses, high-high heels and feather boas draped around their necks tottered past burly doormen and entered the sleek club. They had come to a stop in front of a nightclub called Here Lounge, one door north of the Abbey, a sprawling open-air bar and restaurant that in its 15 years has become the most popular gay watering hole in the city. ON a balmy Friday night in West Hollywood, near the corner of Robertson and Santa Monica boulevards, two bright yellow school buses pulled to the curb.
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