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When she started clubbing in the early 1970s, gay clubs often denied her entrance because she was black and female. When allowed in, she would often be double-carded, having to show two forms of identification. There was no space where black gays could enjoy themselves in one another’s company, escaping what they saw as the racial discrimination of West Hollywood and the homophobia of the African American community. So in 1973 she opened Catch One, one of the first black discos in the country. Whites had bathhouses, health organizations and other spaces. For black gays, their clubs were often the only gathering place they had. When the HIV epidemic broke out, white gays banded together, using their clubs as spaces for fundraising and political galvanization. But early on, black gays did not see HIV as an issue affecting them, because the media and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention portrayed the virus as a white gay disease.īy the time blacks realized it did affect them, the damage had been done and club-going practices had shifted.
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The black gay clubs, serving an already limited number of people, were left without clubbers as the community shrunk. Jeffrey Pub on the South Side of Chicago holds the mantle as the last black-owned gay club in that city. Detroit hasn’t had one since the closure of the Continental in the late 1990s. In Los Angeles, black gays are now attracted to the newness and central location of West Hollywood, where club-hopping is possible.