Tay-Bush Inn raid

Tay-Bush Inn raid
Tay-Bush raid

Part of Gay liberation movement
Date	September 14, 1961 (1961-09-14)
Venue	Tay-Bush Inn
Location	Bush Street at Taylor Street, Tenderloin, San Francisco, California, U.S.

The Tay-Bush Inn raid was a police raid on an all-night, one-room café in San Francisco, California around 3 a.m. on September 14, 1961. There 103 LGBT patrons (mostly gay men) were arrested. It is considered a pivotal event in the history of LGBT rights in San Francisco.[1][2] It was the largest raid on a gay bar in this city, and received the most press coverage.[2] The arrested were described in the press as mostly white and middle class men.[3]

The Tay-Bush Inn raid was followed by the 1965 New Years Ball at California Hall (a fundraiser for the Council on Religion and the Homosexual, and other homophile organizations), which also ended in a police raid and subsequent lawsuit for gay rights.[4][5] The site of the Tay-Bush Inn is now called the La Galleria Condominiums (at 900 Bush Street), a 14 story building that contains 152 units.[1]

See also

• Gayola, a type of police bribe
• Hazel's Inn raid (1956)
• Cooper Do-nuts Riot (1959)

References

1. "1961 police raid pivotal for gay rights in S.F." SFGate. 22 June 2013. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
2. Boyd, Nan Alamilla (2003). Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. University of California Press. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-520-24474-0.
3. Agee, Christopher Lowen (2014-03-31). The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950-1972. University of Chicago Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-226-12231-1.
4. Sides, Josh (2011). Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco. Oxford University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-19-987406-4.
5. Cain, Patricia A. (Oct 1993). "Litigating for Lesbian and Gay Rights: A Legal History". Virginia Law Review. 79 (7 Symposium on Sexual Orientation and the Law): 1551–1641. doi:10.2307/1073382. JSTOR 1073382.