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And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that half of 548 men under age 30 surveyed in West Hollywood said they’d had unprotected sex in the previous six months. West Hollywood has the highest number of AIDS cases per capita in the state with only half a percent of LA County’s population, the town is home to 7 percent of the county’s PWAs. This skirmish in the sex wars is playing out in a town where gay men dominate the local government, and gay bars (the town’s cash cows) and AIDS organizations (its main machers) call the shots. So began a two-year crusade by Weinstein that threw this pastel town - a two-square-mile enclave surrounded by Los Angeles and Beverly Hills where one-third of the 40,000 residents (and more of the club patrons) are gay - into its hissiest fit ever. But the bars, it struck Weinstein, were not doing their part to distribute them.
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And when he popped into other bars on the strip - Hunters, Mother Lode, the infamous Rage - he found the same.įor several years, the City of West Hollywood had paid for and distributed some 30,000 condoms a year to local night spots.
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That’s when he noticed that Micky’s condom bowl was empty. Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the nation’s largest AIDS care provider, had just stopped for some juice at AHF’s coffee shop - a packed den called WeHo Lounge that features gourmet treats, community forums and HIV testing - when he decided to head next door to Micky’s, a popular gay dance bar, for a glance at the guys. It all started one afternoon in early 1999 when Michael Weinstein took a walk down Santa Monica Boulevard, along that glittering avenue of stores, restaurants, boutiques and gay bars in West Hollywood known as Boys’ Town.