Cangelosi, 86, started as an employee in the 1960s before taking over as owner in 1985. Moonlight Rollerway has been operating since 1956, running out of a warehouse that was once used to make airplane parts during World War II. Over the last three decades, it's become a space for the LGBTQ community to gather and, importantly, party. This is what it's like on any given Wednesday at Moonlight Rollerway during Rainbow Skate, one of the few consistent queer, sober events in the Los Angeles area. system crackles to announce a last-chance call for the snack bar’s hot dogs and hamburgers.
The magic is abruptly interrupted when the P.A. It’s all, as attendee, and my friend, Rebecca, gleefully puts it, “ so gay.” In that moment, with the rink bathed in hazy cerulean lighting, the scene is almost ethereal. Others are more experienced, linking arms and waltzing along as if their skates weighed nothing at all.Ī disco ball cuts through the fog machine’s plumes and sends beams of light across the skaters’ faces. Some are first-timers, hesitantly gripping the railings for support as they will their bodies to stay upright. As the chorus of Cher’s “Believe” pulsates through the building, skaters dressed in glittering jumpsuits and multicolored shirts with fringed sleeves glide across the rink.
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