Terror and Vice: Los Angeles’ Painful Gay History

Today LA is viewed as a sort of progressive paradise (it isn't)... but what was history really like for the LGBTQ community, and why? Come learn with me!
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Sources:
Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth by Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Suzanna M. Crage
Gay LA by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons
Gay New York by George Chauncey
Surpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman
The Lesbian Herstory Archives
“Character Assassins”: How the FBI Used the Issue of Homosexuality against the Black Freedom Struggle by Jared Leighton
Women-Identified Women: Trans Women in 1970s Lesbian Feminist Organizing by Emma Heaney
Unacceptable Mannerisms: Gender Anxieties, Homosexual Activism, and Swish in the United States, 1945-1965 by Craig M. Loftin
From Subversion to Obscenity: The FBI's Investigations of the Early Homophile Movement in the United States, 1953-1958 by DOUGLAS M. CHARLES
Containing "Perversion": African Americans and Same-Sex Desire in Cold War Los Angeles by KEVIN ALLEN LEONARD
When Hollywood Studios Married Off Gay Stars to Keep Their Sexuality a Secret, THAD MORGAN www.history.co...
Citizen Surveillance by SIMON J. JUDKINS
The Los Angeles Times Archive
'The Beginning of a Conversation': What It Was Like to Be an LGBTQ Activist Before Stonewall By Jess McHugh time.com/longf...
Images and Video:
Martin Turnbull
Los Angeles Public Library
PBS
KCET
Getty Images
The LA Times and The LA Herald
ONE Archives