Cathedral Cy Was the First Stop for Gay Bars the Dert

Contents:

• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• WHY IS THE MONUMENT OF A HISTORIC LA GAY BAR COVERED SHAKE SHACK SIGNS?
• BEFORE STONEWALL: LA POLICE RAID BLACK CAT, GAY BAR
• 12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS
• HOW ONE SF BAR, A HOLOT SURVIVOR AND HIS LAWYER HELPED CHANGE THE TIS ON GAY RIGHTS AMERI 1951
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.

He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

WHY IS THE MONUMENT OF A HISTORIC LA GAY BAR COVERED SHAKE SHACK SIGNS?

To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. ”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.

BEFORE STONEWALL: LA POLICE RAID BLACK CAT, GAY BAR

“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. S., wh more than 6, 000 member hoeholds and hundreds of the urse of the 20th century, Los Angel played a signifint role the advancement of civil rights for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer intified people, as well as the shapg of a llective yet diverse muny inty.

12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS

11, 1967, rponse to a New Year’s Eve police raid at the popular gay bar weeks before.

Photo urty of the ONE Natnal Gay and Lbian Archiv at the USC Librari.

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 the midnight celebratn on Jan.

HOW ONE SF BAR, A HOLOT SURVIVOR AND HIS LAWYER HELPED CHANGE THE TIS ON GAY RIGHTS AMERI 1951

Some patrons managed to pe the chaos of the raid by nng across the street and blendg to the crowd at New Fac, another gay bar and later the se of Circ of Books. At the time, homosexualy was nsired a mental illns the Uned Stat. The 1950s saw the formatn of lol groups such as the Mattache Society, which foced on protectg and improvg the rights of gay men.

A 1964 article Life magaze scribed Los Angel as the birthplace of a new “homophile” movement.

By the time of the Black Cat raid 1967, Los Angel was also wnsg the rise of the Gay Liberatn Movement, which tersected wh the broar civil rights anizg and youth unterculture of the New Year’s Eve raid of the Black Cat reprented a turng pot for activists.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

Two anizatns – Personal Rights Defense and Edutn (PRIDE) and Southern California Council on Relign and the Homophile (SCCRH) – me together to stage the unprecented prott on Feb. Activists lled on LAPD to end entrapment, cease illegal search, and rpect the basic rights and digny of gay, lbian, and bisexual 1967 prott at The Black Cat predated New York’s famed Stonewall Rts by two and a half years. While volved fewer people and did not figure as promently natnally, reprents one of the first stanc when lbian and gay activists bravely anized and stood up for their events at The Black Cat had signifint legal repercsns, as of the 14 men arrted durg the raid for exchangg New Year’s kiss were nvicted of lewd nduct and were liable unr California Penal Co Sectn 647 to register as sex offenrs for the rt of their liv.

History that gay men asserted their equal protectn rights unr the 14th Amendment – a legal argument that urts would only accept s later. Gay Bar by Electric Six - sung by flyg Vikg Ktens - animatn by Joel Vech. Today, peers out om above the kd of gastropub where you n orr a $16 cktail, easily ftg wh this gentrifyg part of Sunset Boulevard, once known as a workg-class Lato neighborhood and gay enclave.

Fifty-five years ago, though, photographs ptured a different Black Cat, a gay bar that spired civilians to gather unr those large fele ey and prott the unfair treatment of LGBTQ people. They anchor the gay bar not only as a place that once sndalized society wh the tenrns patrons showed one another, but also as a se of polil stggle. Police chased two men down the street to New Fac, another popular gay bar, and beat the owner, a woman named Lee Roy.