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12 GAY STREET
[Eded for length om the origal broadst] Rachel Maddow looks at the storied (and hnted!) history of the buildg at 12 Gay Street New York Cy, most recently the property of sanctned Rsian oligarch and Tmp sndal figure Oleg Deripaska, and raid by the FBI for reasons not yet ma public. * 12 gay street new york city fbi raid *
) history of the buildg at 12 Gay Street New York Cy, most recently the property of sanctned Rsian oligarch and Tmp sndal figure Oleg Deripaska, and raid by the FBI for reasons not yet ma public. Agents nducted simultaneo search at the Haft mansn near DC’s Embassy Row and at 12 Gay Street Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. But someone was payg the bills at the Haft mansn and 12 Gay Street.
Realtor workg for Deripaska that referenc the oligarch’s preferenc for electronics and electril outlets near his bed 12 Gay Street. On the perm, Ezubov listed his addrs at a rented mailbox, loted a short walk om 12 Gay Street, where property tax bills for all of Deripaska’s New York properti are sent.
Raids on gay bars and bathho served to spire the historic Stonewall rts that lnched the morn LGBTQ+ rights movement the U. Fifty years after the Black Cat protts Los Angel, which directly led to the lnch of The Advote, we take a look at some of the most nsequential strik on gay bars and bathho datg back more than a century.
[Eded for length om the origal broadst] Rachel Maddow looks at the storied (and hnted!) history of the buildg at 12 Gay Street New York Cy, most recently the property of sanctned Rsian oligarch and Tmp sndal figure Oleg Deripaska, and raid by the FBI for reasons not yet ma public. * 12 gay street new york city fbi raid *
The rmatn gathered actually led to a wir vtigatn of homosexualy nearby ci, which rulted 20 arrts, cludg two ps on the Baker Street beat, acrdg to Allan Bebe’s A History of Bathho. Moral reformers New York Cy raised polil prsure on police the 1920s to shut down the Lafayette Brothers’ Turkish Baths, a popular spot for gay men livg and visg the cy. A German gay magaze 1929 published an acunt of a 26-year-old European visor that said eight tectiv went unrver the bathhoe, then round all patrons the ont room and beat the guts.
Loted between Los Angel gay bars Harold’s and the Waldorf, Cooper’s Donuts at night beme a hub of social activy for drag queens, gays, trans people, and htlers the 1950s. While one of the first known phbacks agast police raids, likely would have been fotten if not for the fact gay lerature pneer John Rechy happened to be there as the time.
San Francis police 1966 announced a crackdown on gay bathho and March of that year raid the 21st Street Baths. A New Year’s police raid on the Black Cat, a gay bay the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angel, rulted the beatgs of more than a dozen people; two men were arrted for the crime of kissg and a bartenr suffered a ptured spleen. While such raids of gay bars were mon the late 1960s, the severy of this cint sparked protts for weeks.