Gay and lbian bars and clubs have often been sanctuari. Sometim those sanctuari have e unr siege.
Contents:
- POLICE ED TO RAID GAY BARS. NOW THEY MARCH PRI PARAS.
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
POLICE ED TO RAID GAY BARS. NOW THEY MARCH PRI PARAS.
The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, took place on June 28, 1969, New York Cy, after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a lol gay club. The raid sparked a rt among bar patrons and neighborhood rints as police hled employe and patrons out of the bar, leadg to six days of protts and vlent clash. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement. * police raid on gay bars *
Raids on gay bars and bathho served to spire the historic Stonewall rts that lnched the morn LGBTQ+ rights movement the U.
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.
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.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATTACKS AT GAY AND LBIAN BARS
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. 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.
San Francis police 1966 announced a crackdown on gay bathho and March of that year raid the 21st Street Baths. 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.
While such raids of gay bars were mon the late 1960s, the severy of this cint sparked protts for weeks. It also led Richard Mch and Bill M to lnch lol gay rights newsletter PRIDE (Personal Rights Defense and Edutn), which would later bee The Advote. The Dover Hotel Los Angel operated practilly as a gay bathhoe, and as such drew the attentn of police, who nducted equent raids.