![]() After the end of Prohibition, almost all LGBT bars and gathering spaces came to be controlled by the Mafia. ![]() In the 19th and 20th centuries, gay and lesbian bars and clubs were subject to various oppressive forms of social control by the police, religiously-affiliated individuals and groups - such as the 19th-century New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, that dictated morality and raided bars and clubs - and eventually the State Liquor Authority (SLA) in 1934. ![]() “Homos, Lezzies, and Undesirables”: Gay Bar Raids and Closures in NYC
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