The Black Cat Tavern -1967 - Los Angeles Gay History (sitios de interés)
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The bar has been open approximately 2 months. Undercover vice squad officers beat and arrested gay male patrons on the evening of Dec. 31, 1966, for openly engaging in the traditional New Year’s Eve kiss. About 12 vice-squad officers started beating patrons to the floor about 5 minutes after midnight. They did not identify themselves except by their weapons.
5 patrol cars, containing 2 uniformed officers each, were brought from a near-by side street where they had been parked for sometime and the individuals arrested were taken to the newly opened Rampart St. Police Station. 3 bartenders were among those arrested.
This created a riot in the immediate area that soon expanded. Several days later, this police action incited a civil demonstration of over 200 attendees to protest the raids. The demonstration was organized by a group called PRIDE (Personal Rights in Defense and Education). The protest was met by squadrons of armed policemen. Two of the men arrested for kissing were later convicted under state law and registered as sex offenders. The men appealed, asserting their right of equal protection under the law, but the U.S. Supreme Court did not accept their case.
It was from this event that the publication The Advocate began as a newspaper for PRIDE (Personal Rights in Defense and Education). Together the raid on the Black Cat Tavern and later the raid on The Patch in August 1968 inspired the formation of the Metropolitan Community Church.
These events happened two years prior to Stonewall.
On November 7, 2008, the site was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
On November 30, 2012 a restaurant opened under the same moniker and tries to embrace its place in LGBT history with historical photos on the walls.
5 patrol cars, containing 2 uniformed officers each, were brought from a near-by side street where they had been parked for sometime and the individuals arrested were taken to the newly opened Rampart St. Police Station. 3 bartenders were among those arrested.
This created a riot in the immediate area that soon expanded. Several days later, this police action incited a civil demonstration of over 200 attendees to protest the raids. The demonstration was organized by a group called PRIDE (Personal Rights in Defense and Education). The protest was met by squadrons of armed policemen. Two of the men arrested for kissing were later convicted under state law and registered as sex offenders. The men appealed, asserting their right of equal protection under the law, but the U.S. Supreme Court did not accept their case.
It was from this event that the publication The Advocate began as a newspaper for PRIDE (Personal Rights in Defense and Education). Together the raid on the Black Cat Tavern and later the raid on The Patch in August 1968 inspired the formation of the Metropolitan Community Church.
These events happened two years prior to Stonewall.
On November 7, 2008, the site was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
On November 30, 2012 a restaurant opened under the same moniker and tries to embrace its place in LGBT history with historical photos on the walls.
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