The Sunset Junction bar had long been a magnet for gay Latinos with Spanish-language drag shows and other events. Le Barcito is located in the Sunset Boulevard building once occupied by a previous gay bar called the Black Cat Tavern, where the LAPD arrested several men for kissing, triggering one of the nation’s first gay rights protests in 1967. In 2009, the L.A. Weekly named Le Barcito as Best Club the Black Cat Dragged In.

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