Gay club pomona

In , the same year as the Stonewall riots that started the gay-rights movement, what may be the area&#x;s first lgbtq+ bar opened in downtown Pomona.

The Rathskeller took over the basement of the Mayfair Hotel, a red-brick hotel across from the Fox Theater. One anecdote may illustrate why lgbtq+ bars found a foothold in Pomona.

The story goes that one night a group of bikers was inside harassing six lesbians. The bartender phoned police, who arrived in minutes, told the bikers the women weren&#x;t interested, please leave, and if you ever come back, we&#x;ll arrest you for disturbing the peace. The bartender was encouraged to phone anytime there was trouble.

That was just one of the eye-openers in a research paper by a former Cal Poly Pomona student who documented Pomona&#x;s gay and lesbian lock scene for a class project.

Delana Martin got an A-plus for her page paper, Pomona Underground: Male lover and Lesbian Bars , that collected histories and photos from a scene that is all but invisible to most of us.

Martin, a lesbian and a self-described Pomona girl, came up with