New York man arrted vandalism at gay bar

Contents:

• TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY
• MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• 3 MEN CHARGED DGGG MURRS AND ROBBERI AT MANHATTAN GAY BARS
• MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND
• MAN CHARGED DEADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS; 2 SPECTS STILL AT LARGE
• NEW YORK MAN ARRTED VANDALISM AT GAY BAR
• ARRTS MA ADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS, 1 SPECT STILL AT LARGE

TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY

A 34-year-old Portugue man was arrted by the police while vatng Turkey bee he "looked gay", Portugue media reported. "They thought I was gog to jo an unthorised LGBTQI+ march nearby bee I looked gay.

MAN ARRTED KILLGS THAT TERRORIZED MANHATTAN GAY BARS

READ MORE: Turkish polil lear: Greeks, Romans and Amerins are "gay gods the East Mederranean. 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.

3 MEN CHARGED DGGG MURRS AND ROBBERI AT MANHATTAN GAY BARS

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.

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.

MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND

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.

MAN CHARGED DEADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS; 2 SPECTS STILL AT LARGE

While such raids of gay bars were mon the late 1960s, the severy of this cint sparked protts for weeks.

NEW YORK MAN ARRTED VANDALISM AT GAY BAR

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. The raid would prompt a monstratn by the Gay Liberatn Front and other anizatns that moved through the day om Sheridan Square to St.

ARRTS MA ADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS, 1 SPECT STILL AT LARGE

California lawmakers 1976 passed a nsentg adults law part to stop persecutn of gays through bathhoe raids, but that didn’t stop San Francis ps om raidg Liberty Baths an apparent tt of that law, acrdg to A History of Bathho. While gay Amerins have Stonewall, LGBT Canadians have Operatn Soap. London gay sna Browni was closed down by a police raid 1988.

The owner of the Streatham tablishment would end up fed 5, 000 pounds and sentenced to six months jail, somethg Gay News at the time would label a “dranian sentence. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office nducted jot raids of Florida gay bars Club 21 and Copa on May 3, 1991, and the cints would play a role Sheriff Nick Navarro eventually losg reelectn, ironilly after nductg such raids an apparent publicy stunt. Byron Jon, who led a group om the Gay and Lbian Youth Group Club 21 the eveng of the raid, wrote later The Advote that hundreds were taed by police though only six were arrted.