![]() ![]() ![]() Women could not serve alcohol, (or even, in some places, legally enter a bar) so there was always a man working the bar. First of all, you could not be an out gay person as an owner of the bar, because if you’d ever been convicted of a crime against morality - which many people were, for soliciting or performing a lewd (homosexual) act - you were prohibited from running a bar. There was so much police harassment going on, all about serving gay people. He was a Holocaust survivor, and a straight man, but his bar catered to all types of people - the Beats gathered there, older locals from the neighborhood, and of course, the gay crowd. Sol Stoumen, the proprietor, was a kind of incredible guy, I’m really fascinated by him. I think it’s really interesting that that marked the transition in a way, because that year was really significant, in that the Black Cat closed after their long legal battle.
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