Browsing: ” activist Keith Boykin wrote on Instagram. That was the fall of 1995. While the club was frequented by celebrities

       Thais-Williams, a lesbian, opened Jewel’s Catch One in the early 1970s because she saw that Black LGBTQ+ people in L.A. needed a space of their own. She had previously run a mixed club, where gay and straight Blacks and whites partied together. “It was kind of a miracle, really,” she once said.