West Hollywood

Well before the national gay-rights movement sprang from the Stonewall riots, West Hollywood Presbyterian Church started Los Angeles' first gay men's rap group. The year was 1965. The congregation launched the Lazarus Project in 1977, sending gay men and lesbians into Presbyterian churches across the country to share their stories of faith and family at a time when the denomination was poised to declare that "homosexuality was not God's wish. " The small church just off the Sunset Strip was the faith's first to hire an openly gay pastor — 27 years before the Presbyterian Constitution allowed homosexuals to be ordained.

In West Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard has long been the odd street out. It is the only one where parking meters tick until 2 a.m. Not so on other streets in this 1.9-square-mile city, not even along Santa Monica Boulevard, where metering ends at 6 p.m. So as clubs and restaurants fill up along the storied Sunset Strip that begins in Hollywood, it's a sure bet many of those folks parked for free - even all night - in WeHo. That could soon change. FOR THE RECORD: Parking meters: In the Oct. 13 LATExtra section, an article about potential changes to West Hollywood parking meter hours misspelled the last name of UCLA urban planning professor Donald Shoup as Shoupe.