Home(bodies): Transitory Belonging at LA’s Oldest Latinx Drag Bar

La Plaza nightclub was founded in 1975, making it the oldest operating Latina/o gay bar in Los Angeles. According to Leo, the general manager, not much has changed in the thirty-five years he has worked there. In fact, he said that nothing has changed, that La Plaza is like the Twilight Zone and that customers who come back after a long time away are surprised to see the same people working there. In his book Cruising Utopia, José Esteban Muñoz also comments on the time warp sensation that one feels at La Plaza: “The codes that organize time and space