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and small-scale rooming houses, restaurants and gay nightlife venues walkable to the beach. Many of the staff and performers on the gay scene moved to the better-paying casinos. The AIDS epidemic additionally decimated the community in the 1980s and early 1990s, and independent bars, clubs and rooming houses could not compete with the comped freebies at the casinos.
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Entertainers Club. New York Avenue establishments with
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