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GAY BARS AND GAY RIGHTS
Gay bars, one of the few public plac of ngregatn for LGBTQ+ people before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, were flash pots for the crimalizatn of same-sex sexual nduct, acrdg to legal scholar Patricia A. Ca’s history of ligatn for lbian and gay rights. Addnally, a broad terpretatn of “homosexual acts” the twentieth century ma “lbians and gay men thk of themselv as crimals jt for beg who they were, ” wr Ca.
In what Ca lls the first “succsful Amerin ‘gay rights’ se, ” 1951, the California Supreme Court led Stoumen v. The state liquor thory had “acted arbrarily termg that the mere prence of homosexuals a public bar was a threat to public welfare and morals. ” The urt nclud that the state uldn’t nflate homosexual stat and homosexual nduct.
” Dpe Stoumen, the laws would be ed to harass and close gay bars until the laws were clared unnstutnal, 1959.