ROMANOFF: Two males kissing each other was against the law. ROMANOFF: People instinctively went over, hugged and kissed each other.ĭURAN: But the police was there, too - undercover. And inside, partiers were counting down to midnight. I thought I looked pretty good (laughter).ĭURAN: But he still remembers what happened to his friends on New Year's Day 1967. Eighty-year-old Alexei Romanoff was 30 at the time.ĪLEXEI ROMANOFF: I have pictures of me back then. ![]() LEO DURAN, BYLINE: The story of the riot and protest at the Black Cat Tavern starts a half century ago. ![]() ![]() From member station KPCC in LA, Leo Duran reports. But the country's first organized LGBT demonstration actually happened over two years before that in Los Angeles. The story of LGBT rights in America often begins with the rioting and protests at New York's Stonewall Inn in 1969.
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