From archives: What you may not know about L.A.'s role in the LGBTQ movement
But just as history is said to be a story told by the victors, gay history is a story often told by New Yorkers, who see our past through their own narrow lens.
Just three years later, again in Los Angeles, a group of gay men banded together to start an organization that many consider to be the genesis of the modern gay rights movement. Harry Hay, a brilliant, outspoken member of the Communist Party, gathered a group of like-minded gay friends and started the Mattachine Society.
Cooper Do-nuts was a small cafe located between two gay bars — Harold’s and the Waldorf — on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. A hangout for lesbians, gay men, transgender folks, hustlers and drag queens, the shop — and its clientele — were often harassed by police. In May 1959, when two police officers attempted to arrest several LGBT patrons simply for congregating at the shop, customers flooded into the streets, throwing coffee cups, trash, spoons and doughnuts at the officers, who fled.
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