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A police raid at the Black Cat Tavern led to protts outsi the gay bar that predated the Stonewall rts by more than two years. The event will be memorated Saturday.

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Officers beat gay patrons and arrted 14 for same-sex kissg — which was illegal durg the time — at the Black Cat on New Year’s Day 1967. That event sparked gay-rights protts.

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