| Founded | 1950s |
|---|---|
| Defunct | 1988 |
| Headquarters | 4737 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, California , United States |
Peg's Place was a San Francisco lesbian bar (1950s–1988)[1][2] and the site of an assault in 1979 by off-duty members of the San Francisco vice squad,[3] an event which drew national attention to other incidents of anti-gay violence and police harassment of the LGBTQ community[4] and helped propel an unsuccessful[5] citywide proposition to ban the city's vice squad altogether.[6] Historians have written about the incident when describing the tension that existed between the police and the LGBT community during the late 1970s.[7][8][9][10][11]
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- ^ Flanagan, Michael (March 18, 2018). "Café back in the day". Bay Area Reporter. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
- ^ Scott P. Anderson, "Cop Charged in Lesbian Bar Fracas",The Houston Advocate, May 3, 1979
- ^ Paul Grabowicz, The Washington Post, "Anti-Gay Sentiments Turn Violent in Aftermath of Moscone-Milk Killings," May 12, 1979
- ^ "San Francisco Ballot Propositions Database". sfpl.org. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
- ^ Knight News Service, "San Francisco May Vote Out Vice Squad", Lakeland Ledger, October 29, 1979
- ^ John D'Emilio, Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University, Routledge, Feb 4, 2014, p. 92
- ^ Wayne R. Dynes, History of Homosexuality in Europe and America, Taylor & Francis, 1992 p. 99
- ^ Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, Macmillan, Oct 14, 2008 p. 306
- ^ Josh Sides , Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco, Oxford University Press, Oct 19, 2009, p.165
- ^ Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon, Lesbian/woman, Bantam Books, 1983, p. 317