The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, took place on June 28, 1969, New York Cy, after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a lol gay club. The raid sparked a rt among bar patrons and neighborhood rints as police hled employe and patrons out of the bar, leadg to six days of protts and vlent clash. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement.
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- POLICE NAME THREE DIVIDUALS LKED TO NYC GAY BAR SLAYGS, DGGGS
- JUNE 28 MARKS 14 YEARS SCE THE POLICE RAID OF A FORT WORTH GAY BAR
- HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
- POLICE ED TO RAID GAY BARS. NOW THEY MARCH PRI PARAS.
- 51 YEARS AFTER STONEWALL, POLICE RAID TWO GAY BARS AIDG PROTTORS
- 2ND MAN TURNS HIMSELF INTO POLICE DEADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS
- GAY BARS AND GAY RIGHTS
- MAN CHARGED WH BREAKG WDOW REPEATEDLY AT MANHATTAN GAY BAR
POLICE NAME THREE DIVIDUALS LKED TO NYC GAY BAR SLAYGS, DGGGS
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The New York Cy Police Department has named three dividuals that they are seekg nnectn wh the vtigatn to a seri of aths of men at gay bars New York Cy.
Jul Car Ramirez, 25, and John Umberger, 33, were robbed and dgged – five weeks apart – after leavg gay bars Hell's Kchen, CBS News reported.
JUNE 28 MARKS 14 YEARS SCE THE POLICE RAID OF A FORT WORTH GAY BAR
FORT WORTH () – Wednday, June 28 marks 14 years sce a Fort Worth gay bar was raid by police and the Texas Alholic Beverage Commissn.
HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
Cocintly, the cint happened 40 years to the day when police New York raid the Stonewall Inn sparkg protts creatg the gay rights movement Camp was at the Rabow Lounge that night, "June 28 was my birthday, we were out wh a bunch of my iends, " said Camp. "I n't believe this is happeng on the 40th anniversary of the stonewall rts and event that began wh police harassment of patrons at a gay bar and 's happeng on this day and was a plete shock to me, " add Camp. Days after, many the muny lled for jtice cludg then Fort Worth Cy uncilmember and the only openly gay member Joel Burns.
Gorrie, an openly gay police litenant, was the liaison until recently, "Beg the liaison allowed me to nnect wh my muny and then also kd of teract wh the partment.
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.
POLICE ED TO RAID GAY BARS. NOW THEY MARCH PRI PARAS.
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.
51 YEARS AFTER STONEWALL, POLICE RAID TWO GAY BARS AIDG PROTTORS
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. 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.
2ND MAN TURNS HIMSELF INTO POLICE DEADLY NYC GAY BAR DGGGS
While such raids of gay bars were mon the late 1960s, the severy of this cint sparked protts for weeks. 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. 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.
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.
GAY BARS AND GAY RIGHTS
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.
Three years after Cha crimalized homosexualy, police Guangzhou July 2000 raid the Junjie men’s health and bety center and arrted 37 men on charg of prostutn. Police Calgary, Canada, drew cricism after a 2002 raid of Goliath’s Sna & Texas Lounge, the only gay bathhoe town.
MAN CHARGED WH BREAKG WDOW REPEATEDLY AT MANHATTAN GAY BAR
Montreal police raid gay strip bar Taboo on May 10, 2003, then publicly suggted they were specifilly raidg the tablishment bee of the potential for olr men preyg on young dancers.