JThe first annual Reminder Day picket at Independence Hall.ġ969 - Gay Liberation Front forms in Philadelphia, with a significant proportion of African-American, Latinx, and Asian members. After a second sit-in a few days later, management agrees to end its discrimination. Bennet, visit for purchases and comissions**ġ954 - Cops from Frank Rizzo’s precinct raid three clubs and arrest “female impersonators.” Continuing well into the 1970s, countless LGBTQ people are arrested, beaten and/or sexually assaulted by police when they raid queer bars.įebruary 1959 - Captain Rizzo and cops raid Humoresque Coffeeshop, 2036 Sansom, and arrest the owner and 34 patrons (“men with beards,” “women in tights”).ġ962 - Rizzo, now Philadelphia Police Commissioner, instructs bar owners not to serve “drag queens,” under penalty of losing their liquor license.ĪpDewey’s restaurant near Rittenhouse Square refuses to serve groups of “homosexuals and persons wearing non-conformist clothing.” Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, more than 150 Black, white, transgender, lesbian and gay people stage a sit-in, and three teenagers are arrested.
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