• the oldest Black owned disco in America 
• LA TIMES: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-jewels-catch-one-documentary-20180502-story.html​​​​​​​

Thais-Williams said. “There was a restriction on same sex dancing, women couldn’t tend bar unless they owned it. The police were arresting people for anything remotely homosexual. We had them coming in with guns pretending to be looking for someone in a white T-shirt just so they could walk around.

“It didn’t stop until the AIDS crisis became such that they were afraid to come in,” she added. “But it never stopped them from parking outside.”

Nonetheless, the club soon earned its spot alongside New York’s Paradise Garage and Chicago’s Warehouse as the nation’s churches for worshippers of ambitious dance music and sexual liberty.

It was a home for young, queer black people who were often spurned at home. And plenty of others wanted in: Madonna was a regular, as were Sharon Stone and Sandra Bernhard. In the film, black musicians and politicians from Evelyn “Champagne” King to Maxine Waters weigh in on its legacy.

Over time, as people fought and died for AIDS-related healthcare, civil rights (including, fundamentally, the freedom to dance and gather after dark), Jewel’s became a lighthouse for its community as much as a place to cut a rug with friends.