A queer trailblazer, L.A.'s mighty Sylvester is finally getting his due

One blazing afternoon in the summer of 1973, Rudy Calvo found himself at loose ends. He was heading to the Whisky a Go Go to see a swish band and needed a chic getup to match. So Calvo, a makeup artist from Costa Rica who’d long called L.A. home, went to the West Hollywood flea market. As he sifted through heaps of turquoise jewelry, patchwork fabric piles, and other ephemera filling the parking lot, a tall Black man with a shock of pink hair... + full article