For some club patrons in the 1970s, Hollywood’s Circus Disco was a refuge. Located on an industrial stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard, the nightclub opened its doors to gay minorities at a time when ...

Just before Danny Muñoz could reach the man who had caught his eye, someone else whisked the stranger off to dance. So Muñoz waited under the flashing lights for him to return. They started talking.

There's a movement to preserve Circus Disco, the Hollywood club that was an early sanctuary for gay people of color in Los Angeles. The city's Cultural Heritage Commission could provide limited ...

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Clubgoers have long strolled through the fantastical entrance of Circus Disco — the gaping mouth of a cartoonish clown — to dance the night away at the Hollywood club founded decades ago to welcome ...

Many features of Circus Disco will be spared as developers build hundreds of new apartments on the site, the Los Angeles Times reports. Under the agreement, AvalonBay Communities has promised to ...

Bid adieu to the big top–themed Circus Disco all this month, starting with Saturday’s BackToDisco, a night of looking back, moving forward and celebrating life on the dance floor. Sadly for L.A.