On Dec. 31, 1966, a dozen placloth policemen observed the New Year's ftivi si the Black Cat, a gay bar Los Angel' Silver Lake neighb ...
Contents:
- WHY IS THE MONUMENT OF A HISTORIC LA GAY BAR COVERED SHAKE SHACK SIGNS?
- THE ‘BLACK CAT GAY RT’ IS WELL-KNOWN… ’S ALSO A MYTH
- THE GAY BAR: WHY THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS BORN ONE
- BEFORE STONEWALL: LA POLICE RAID BLACK CAT, GAY BAR
WHY IS THE MONUMENT OF A HISTORIC LA GAY BAR COVERED SHAKE SHACK SIGNS?
* cat in gay bar *
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. 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.
THE ‘BLACK CAT GAY RT’ IS WELL-KNOWN… ’S ALSO A MYTH
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… * cat in gay bar *
Police chased two men down the street to New Fac, another popular gay bar, and beat the owner, a woman named Lee Roy.
THE GAY BAR: WHY THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS BORN ONE
Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg. * cat in gay bar *
The New Year’s raid on the Black Cat me at a time when every state the untry had anti-sodomy laws and on the heels of anti-gay McCarthyism known as the Lavenr Sre, a wch hunt that had reverberatns the upper echelons of the natn—Print Lyndon B. What happened at the Black Cat now spired a new aln of gay rights anizatns, helmed by Personal Rights Defense and Edutn (PRIDE), and other groups facg harassment by police—hippi, anti-war activists, club owners targeted by curfews—to jo together prott two months later, on Febary 11, 1967.
BEFORE STONEWALL: LA POLICE RAID BLACK CAT, GAY BAR
The gatherg of several hundred people marked a watershed moment for the gay rights movement—one of the first tim LGBTQ people ma such a large public mand for regnn, and a promise to ph back agast police harassment and reprsn. The monstratn reamed the stggle as a fight for the civil rights of gay people and other mory muni who faced police abe. Although gay activists tentnally left the word “homosexual” off of their signage to appease protters who were not prepared to take an explicly gay rights stance, anizer Jim Kepner gave a rog speech that lled for gay people to stand up as gay people.