The Black Cat (Black Cat Tavern)
Gay Heritage
Site of the February 1967 Black Cat protest — among the first documented LGBTQ civil-rights demonstrations in the US, two years before…
Gay Heritage
Site of the February 1967 Black Cat protest — among the first documented LGBTQ civil-rights demonstrations in the US, two years before…
Gay Heritage
The oldest LGBTQ organization lineage in the US and one of the world's largest queer archives — free exhibitions and a reading room near…
Gay Heritage
The Silver Lake stairway named for the Mattachine Society, founded on this hillside by Harry Hay in 1950 — 163 steps with reservoir views.
Gay Heritage
Downtown LA's commemorative square for the 1959 Cooper Do-nuts uprising story and activist Nancy Valverde — a named intersection, dedicated…
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