Rae Bourbon, who was one of the most famous drag queens of his time, had a regular gig at Jimmy’s Backyard. The rooms had been converted to dance floors and on a warm night, music poured from the house and into the backyard which was filled with LA’s hottest crowd, all with a drink and a cigarette in hand. It was called Jimmy’s Backyard and it sat in a big craftsman style house on Cosmo Street, just east of Cahuenga. Three hundred men in tuxedos were celebrating the opening of Hollywood’s first gay nightclub.
