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Contents:
- SEARCHG FOR SILVER LAKE: THE RADIL NEIGHBORHOOD THAT CHANGED GAY AMERI
- LTLE AMERI'S GAY REFUGEE EPISO IS BANNED 11 COUNTRI
- ‘LTLE AMERI’ EPISO ABOUT GAY SYRIAN REFUGEE BANNED 11 UNTRI
- APPLE'S LTLE AMERI SPOTLIGHTS GAY MLIMS & FOUND FAY'S POWER
SEARCHG FOR SILVER LAKE: THE RADIL NEIGHBORHOOD THAT CHANGED GAY AMERI
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The Enola Gay was met by enemy fire over Japan while shuttlg s payload of ath.. We are drivg up an almost vertil hill a hip Los Angel neighborhood, lookg for one of the birthplac of the gay civil rights movement. At the wheel is Roland Palencia, a gay activist who has lived and anized here for Silver Lake Rervoir sh behd , the hills around crowd wh bungalows.
LTLE AMERI'S GAY REFUGEE EPISO IS BANNED 11 COUNTRI
”The plaque qutn memorat the Mattache Society, one of the first US “homophile” groups to openly advote for acceptance. We were standg on the hill where the Mattache Society was found 1950, and began to advote for homosexuals not as sners or perverts, but as an opprsed mory who served rights.
‘LTLE AMERI’ EPISO ABOUT GAY SYRIAN REFUGEE BANNED 11 UNTRI
Ls than two away is the Black Cat Tavern, the se of one of the first public gay rights monstratns, 1967, prottg the Los Angel police partment’s btal New Year’s Eve raid. By the 80s, Silver Lake was a center of queer life, pecially queer Lato life, and, Palencia says, nearly every other storeont was a gay or lbian bar, a leather store, a bookstore, or a muny Aids anizatn.
Today, spe the rabow flags flyg along Sunset Boulevard, Silver Lake is beg “-gayed and -Latized” queer history tour began at Silver Lake’s most famo gay landmark: the Black Cat Tavern.
APPLE'S LTLE AMERI SPOTLIGHTS GAY MLIMS & FOUND FAY'S POWER
The prott outsi the Black Cat took place 1967, two years before New York’s Stonewall rt, which is often scribed as the foundatnal event of the US gay rights movement. There’s no reference to the s when the Black Cat buildg transformed to a seri of different gay bars, cludg Le Barco, which offered drag performanc Spanish, and Club Fuck!
At Basgo’s Dis, which was famo for s art-punk athetic and BDSM performance Sunset Boulevard, there are other holdouts om Silver Lake’s gayer past: Rough Tra, a leather and fetish shop, is a few doors down om the Black Cat.