Cooper Do-nuts Riot
Alleged 1959 LGBTQ uprising in Los Angeles, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Cooper Do-nuts Riot was an alleged uprising in reaction to police harassment of LGBT people at a 24-hour donut cafe in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Whether the riot actually happened, the date, location and whether or not the cafe was a branch of the Cooper chain are all disputed, and there is a lack of contemporary documentary evidence,[1] with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) stating that any records of such event would have been purged years ago.[2]
Cooper Do-nuts Riot | |||
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Part of events leading to the Gay liberation movement | |||
Date | May 1959 | ||
Location | Cooper Do-nuts, 215 South Main Street, Los Angeles, California, US | ||
Goals | Gay liberation and LGBT rights in the United States | ||
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According to John Rechy, who stated he was at the event, it occurred in 1958 or 1959,[1] about 10 years prior to the better-known Stonewall riots in New York City, and is viewed by some historians[3]: 2 as the first modern LGBT uprising in the United States.