Black Cat Tavern: Why Is the Monument of a Historic LA Gay Bar Covered Shake Shack Signs? | Them

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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.

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