The Lessons of La Paloma: LGBTQ Women Throughout Time (S & YouTube)

The Lessons of La Paloma
Three decades before Stonewall…
there was La Paloma.
In 1937, La Paloma was a nightclub in then unincorporated Dade County that catered to “Homosexuals in evening gowns, trousered lesbians, and prostitutes.” On November 15, the KKK raided the club and threatened to burn it. A few weeks later, it was reopened presenting a satire performance of the raid. What lessons can we take from our community’s lost LGBTQ past? And how does this story intertwine with UU Miami’s past and present?

by Andie Arthur

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