There's something fun for everyone to see including gays enjoying their one night a year in fabulous drag, amazing group costumes, costumes poking fun at pop culture, and thousands and thousands of other costumed visitors. is shut down and half a million visitors descend on the city for the West Hollywood Halloween Street Party.
On the evening of October 31, Santa Monica Blvd. Gay visitors are attracted to West Hollywood because they can hold hands and kiss their loved ones in public, being completely open and free of condemnation.
Come to the next West Hollywood Gay Pride which now attracts half a million visitors. Due to the tense relationship with the Los Angeles Police, the parade was moved to the unincorporated portion of Santa Monica Blvd in 1979 and has continued there ever since. history was in New York's Central Park and simultaneously in Los Angeles on Hollywood Blvd. Christopher Street Liberation Day took place on June 28, 1970, exactly one year after the Stonewall riots.
