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Bar Raids & Forced Closures

In the 19th and 20th centuries, gay and lesbian bars and clubs were subject gay various oppressive forms of social control. At first, there were the police and religiously-affiliated individuals and groups, such as the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice that dictated morality and raided bars and clubs.

They were subject to routine police raids, with establishments like the Sea Colony, a ss lesbian bar, raided weekly. This curated collection features gay and lesbian bars and clubs in New York City that were raided by the police or shut down or were attempted to be by the likes of the SLA, moral reformers, and others.

From June 28 to July 3,LGBT patrons of the Stonewall Inn and members of the local community took the unusual action of fighting back during a routine police Learn More. Inless than a year after Stonewall, the police raided the Snake Pit bar and detained mafias people at the local police station. After one person attempted to escape It was closed by the It was one It had clubs of female impersonators a term used The Louis N.

The large plate glass windows A New York court decision, regarding the revoking of the After the State Liquor Authority revoked its The commercial space of this building held several lesbian bars from the s to the s, beginning with the Duchess in By at least through the s, the Sea Colony was one of the most popular lesbian bars in Greenwich Village.

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