A Rainbow Arc of History Hangs Over Prop 8 Protests
Filed by: Karen Ocamb
November 10, 2008 2:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/a_rainbow_arc_of_history_hangs_over_prop.phpFew people really noticed it - the flipping on of a bright white neon light over one of many joints lining Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake's Sunset Junction where the latest pre-march rally against Prop 8 was gathering.
silver lake protestLe Barcito, the sign said. But just above the name perches the cartoon-like face of a black cat. Look at it long enough and there's a Cheshire Cat quality to that bugged-eyed grin, as if that cat knows a secret.
This night, perhaps, the secret is more an ironic memory for surely the new generation of equality activists waving signs and shouting "Equal Rights Now!" has no clue that it was in this bar, on this street after a police raid on New Year's Eve 1967 that gays first poured out onto the streets, angrily protesting for their rights - two and a half years before Stonewall.
