The City Commission meets the first and third Wednesday of each month, except in August and legal holidays. The meetings are held in the City Commission Chambers located at 2600 Hollywood Boulevard, Room 219, and they begin at 1 PM. Meeting dates are subject to change. The City observes the following legal holidays:
Trade (gay slang) This article is about slang term. For related meanings, see Rough Trade (disambiguation). Trade (also known as Chow) is a gay slang term originating from Polari and refers to the (usually) casual partner of a gay man or to the genre of such pairings. Men falling in the category of trade are not gay-identified.
Trade, or commerce, involves the transfer of goods or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. A network that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade, barter, saw the direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services. Barter is trading things without the use of money. Later one side of the barter started to involve precious metals, which gained symbolic as well as practical importance.