Cooper Do-nuts Riot
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cooper-do-nuts-riot-174-15950399
title:
Cooper Do-nuts Riot
text:
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, with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) stating that any records of such event would have been purged years ago. According to John Rechy, who stated he w
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description:
Alleged 1959 LGBTQ uprising in Los Angeles, California
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_Do-nuts_Riot
date created:
2016-01-29T23:10:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:54:24Z
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