A Gay Riot at a Los Angeles Doughnut Shop? The Legend Has Some Holes.
The story still resonates: More than 60 years ago, Los Angeles police officers were routinely harassing the gay and transgender people who gathered at Cooper Do-nuts, a 24-hour spot in the city’s seedy gay circuit known as the Run. Then one evening in May 1959, some fed-up drag queens, hustlers and other customers pushed back,…