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1970 Griffith Park Gay-in 1
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-01 at 4.13.16 PM_thumb.png2023-04-01T23:13:42+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911A crowd gathers at the “Gay-in” at Griffith Park, Los Angeles in 1970. Griffith Park was one of L.A.’s most notorious spots for men to cruise after dark. But perhaps Griffith Park is more well-known in L.A. queer history as the site of the 1968 "Gay-Ins" organized by the Gay Liberation Front. "Gay-Ins," a riff on the hippie “be-ins” at the time, were gatherings that combined education and recreation, starting with a primer on police harassment and ending with a bar crawl that ran late into the evening.plain2023-04-01T23:13:42+00:001970Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49