Okay, here’s another great character from our neighborhood’s history…
Larry “Lair” Davis (former editor of Update, the Gayzette, GLTimes and the GLN [Gay & Lesbian Nation] — all but Update were based in Hillcrest) is hanging out across from the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, as he wraps up his second year as the Communications and Development Director of the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County. He will be corresponding from Central America soon as he enters retirement (aka the next chapter of his life’s adventure). Lair resided in several cozy Hillcrest apartments (above where Buffalo Breath is now located; the new condos at Washington and Eighth, when they were affordable; Spruce Street Apartment building across from The Caliph) in through the 1980s and 1990s.
