It opened in 1960, seven years after President Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450, banning homosexuals from employment by the federal government. During the 1980s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, patrons raised money, many writing personal checks to help those who couldn’t afford medical care. And in 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all state bans on same-sex marriage across the country, it was a cultural turning point marked by cheers and tears inside the dimly lit bar at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Redwood Street.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times