Le Cafe fire news article Las Vegas Sun, 8/25/78
Le Café fire coverage Vegas Gay Times October 1978, cover
Le Café bartender Kenny (Panorama magazine, 2/20/70)
Gay Notes from Le Café, August 1972 (Equal Rights Amendment)
Le Café burns, August 24, 1978 (Marge Jacques, left), (private collection)
Le Café Fire, 08/24/1978 (Marge Jacques, left), (private collection)
Le Café neon sign, c. 1975, photo (c) Dennis McBride
Gay Notes From Le Cafe, 1972
Le Cafe billboard, 1970s, photo courtesy of UNLS MS 2001-22
Le Bistro ad in Panorama Magazine 08/02/1969
Cast members from Boys in the Band at Le Bistro, from Panorama Magazine 08/29/1969
John Waters, Filmmaker
Chicago Gay Liberation holds a dance at the Chicago Coliseum, a huge public space that was once the site of professional hockey and basketball games as well as political conventions. Activists were challenging the police practice of arresting on…
Bayard Rustin, the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and an internationally known peace activist, testifies before the General Welfare Committee of the New York City Council in favor of a bill that would ban discrimination based on sexual…
Essex Hemphill, Poet
Howard Brown, Doctor and Public Health Activist
Charles Ludlam, Actor, Playwright, Director
Dorothy Allison, Writer
The Homosexual Law Reform Fund convenes the first public meeting in South Africa of gays and lesbians. The group was formed, and the meeting in a Johannesburg suburb was called, in response to a legislative proposal to make being gay or lesbian in…
The American Psychiatric Association announces the results of a referendum of its members about whether or not to endorse the decision of its Board of Trustees to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. The referendum had been pushed…