Black Cat Tavern: Why Is the Monument of a Historic LA Gay Bar Covered Shake Shack Signs? | Them

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The Black Cat Tavern was a gay bar at 3909 W Sunset Boulevard Los Angel (which, acrdg to my Google maps, is now a rtrant lled Black Cat so that's awome). It had been around for about five mut before got raid by the LAPD. I mean, was tablished November of 1966…

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

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.

WT HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORIC GAY NIGHTCLUB THE ABBEY IS UP FOR SALE

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.

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