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- CHECK OUT THE BALLS ON THIS GAY GUY WHO ASKED ME OUT WHILE I WAS EATG LUNCH WH MY GIRLIEND
- A GAY RT AT A DOUGHNUT SHOP? THE LEGEND HAS SOME HOL.
CHECK OUT THE BALLS ON THIS GAY GUY WHO ASKED ME OUT WHILE I WAS EATG LUNCH WH MY GIRLIEND
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A GAY RT AT A DOUGHNUT SHOP? THE LEGEND HAS SOME HOL.
John Rechy, thor of the landmark 1963 gay novel “Cy of Night, ” has relled seeg ffee cups Cooper Do-nuts melee has long been noted as a gay uprisg a full 10 years before the more famo June 1969 rt outsi the Stonewall Inn New York Cy. ImageJack Evans, who ran the doughnut cha for many fayImageA mug and sh register om the old Lieberman for The New York TimLol newspapers and TV statns didn’t ver any clash, which may not be surprisg, given how ltle the mastream media reported on gay life those days.
Marsak, the historian, said that while he is all for memoratg gay history, he is skeptil of ntentns, pecially those om the Evans fay, that Cooper Do-nuts was hospable to the L. ”Kim Cooper, who ns the tour pany Esotouric wh her hband, Richard Schave, qutned why Cooper Do-nuts is beg regnized when Los Angel hasn’t landmarked lotns whose bona fis are well-tablished, like the rince of Morris Kight, who -found the Gay and Lbian Communy Servic Center 1969. “It pas to see policians makg a fs to ‘honor gay history’ this performative manner, while real LGBTQ+ landmarks are danger, ” Ms.
Evans, a marketg Valver said that she and her lbian iends “always felt accepted” at Cooper Do-nuts durg an era when was dangero to be openly gay. That’s what happens when “heroic events have taken on a life of their own, ” said the historian Lillian Farman, whose 2006 book, “Gay L. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn D, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Gay Rt at a Doughnut Shop?