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WHY IS THE MONUMENT OF A HISTORIC LA GAY BAR COVERED SHAKE SHACK SIGNS?
So listen, as I said last night: If you’re gay, God bls you. ”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. “Shake Shack is openg this historic LGBTQ buildg while enablg a ndidate that has and will ntue to harm gay and trans people, ” he L.
“There would be a huge outrage if somethg like this happened at Stonewall, ” she said to me, llg the move a “secratn of somethg that the gay muny should hold sacred. Dpe Los Angel’ extensive gay history and large queer populatn of over 500, 000 people, only six of the cy’s 1, 266 Cultural-Historic Monuments specifilly pay tribute to historic LGBTQ Griffis“The LGBTQ history of Los Angel is one that is not monly known, but 's really important to regnize the plac that tell their stori, ” Lda Dishman, the CEO and Print of the non-prof The Los Angel Conservancy, which works to prerve historic s and cultural rourc Los Angel County, told Them.