The Black Cat Tavern was a gay bar at 3909 W Sunset Boulevard Los Angel (which, acrdg to my Google maps, is now a rtrant lled Black Cat so that's awome). It had been around for about five mut before got raid by the LAPD. I mean, was tablished November of 1966…
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WHY IS THE MONUMENT OF A HISTORIC LA GAY BAR COVERED SHAKE SHACK SIGNS?
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Loted on Sunset Boulevard, the most Art De buildg that ho The Black Cat was origally nstcted as a Safeway grocery market 1939, but by the 1960s ntaed a gay bar and lndromat. The bar attracted a largely workg class clientele and was ntled among a number of bs iendly to gay men and lbians. History that gay men were fend a urt se as equal unr the Constutn, though the urts disagreed at the time.
”A few weeks later on Febary 11, a group of advot anized a gatherg of nearly 600 dividuals outsi of the gay bar, ced by the Cultural Herage Commissn of the Cy of Los Angel as the first documented anized LGBTQ prott the natn. The Black Cat Tavern eventually closed later that year, but the space ntued to host a strg of gay bars cludg Bhwhacker and Le Barco until 2008, when the entire duplex beme a Los Angel Historic-Cultural Monument for s role the LGBTQ civil rights movement as well as a California Historic Landmark earlier this 2012, a gastropub lled The Black Cat opened on one si of the Silver Lake duplex that ed to hoe the origal gay bar. ”“Gay bars are on the cle, but they’re not gog away, they’re evolvg.