By 1970 the contest had become so famous that The Advocate featured a Groovy Guy float in the first gay pride parade down Hollywood Boulevard in June 1970.
Starting with the 1970 event rumors in the community started circulating that the contest was fixed. These rumors increased each year and started causing some damage to the Advocate's reputation. In addition to this people accused the contest of making money off the community and not putting it back in despite the fact that the Advocate gave donations to the Metropolitan Community Churh and the Los Angeles Gay Community Center. Filmaker Pat Rocco started filming the events in this year. The winner of that year was Larry Schramm (sponsored by the Jaguar Club), the 1rst runner up was Chico Rodriguez (of the Little Club) and the 2nd runner up was Jim Cassidy (sponsored by Bizarre Productions).
2nd Groovy Guy Contest Winner
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