Meet Kiki, an Excg New Gay Bar Replacg a Pair of Shuttered Shaw Div - Eater DC

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• MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV
• THE BUNKER LONDON - PRIVATE APPOTMENT ONLYLONDONMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEHOTELS · BUDGETGUTHO & B&BSHOSTELSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSLBIAN BARSCISE CLUBSSNASGAY SOHOMASSAGETHEATRECABARETSSHOPSGYMSCAF & RTRANTSSERVICATTRACTNSCY GUITOURSGAY MAPUK EVENTSGAY WEDDGSTHE BUNKER LONDON - PRIVATE APPOTMENT ONLY
• 30 INFAMO POLICE RAIDS OF GAY BARS AND BATHHO

MEET KIKI, AN EXCG NEW GAY BAR REPLACG A PAIR OF SHUTTERED SHAW DIV

The new project om Keaton Fedak, the outgog general manager at nearby gay bar Dirty Goose. ’s Gay Flag Football League).

“We’re hopg to make a gayborhood Shaw.

Across the street om Kiki and Dirty Goose, unaffiliated gay tablishment Nellie’s Sports Bar ma negative headl this June after a secury guard asslted a Black woman. Asslt Agast a Black Woman at Nellie’s Could Lead the Gay Bar to Lose Its Liquor License [EDC]. Raids on gay bars and bathho served to spire the historic Stonewall rts that lnched the morn LGBT rights movement the U.

THE BUNKER LONDON - PRIVATE APPOTMENT ONLYLONDONMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGEHOTELS · BUDGETGUTHO & B&BSHOSTELSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSLBIAN BARSCISE CLUBSSNASGAY SOHOMASSAGETHEATRECABARETSSHOPSGYMSCAF & RTRANTSSERVICATTRACTNSCY GUITOURSGAY MAPUK EVENTSGAY WEDDGSTHE BUNKER LONDON - PRIVATE APPOTMENT ONLY

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. 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.

Turkish Baths (1929)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.

Cooper's Donuts (1959)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.

30 INFAMO POLICE RAIDS OF GAY BARS AND BATHHO

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. 21st Street Baths (1966)San Francis police 1966 announced a crackdown on gay bathho and March of that year raid the 21st Street Baths. Black Cat (1967)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.