As was common for gay bars at the time, the Greenwich Village bar, the Stonewall Inn, was owned by the Mafia. While police raids on gay bars were routine in the 1960s, officers quickly lost control of the situation at the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969. Tensions between New York … [Read more...]
#LGBTQ: The Black Cat Tavern & LA Pride –A Short History
In the late 1960s, The Black Cat Tavern was one of a dozen gay bars along a one-mile stretch of Sunset Boulevard ending at Sunset Junction in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. On New Year’s 1967, at the Black Cat Tavern, gay men were kissing in … [Read more...]
