Today in Labor History June 11, 1926: Eve’s Hangout was raided by NYPD. Eve’s hangout was a lesbian nightclub, teahouse and restaurant, established by immigrant Polish-Jewish feminist Eve Adams in Greenwich Village in 1925. It was also one of the first lesbian bars in the U.S. She organized concerts, readings and meetings at her Hangout, where patrons could discuss love between women and political issues. It quickly became a popular hangout for lesbians, immigrants, working-class people, intellectuals, and anarchists. It
During the raid, a cop discovered the book Lesbian Love, that she had written. She was charged with, and convicted of, obscenity and disorderly conduct. The bar did not survive her arrest and soon closed. Adams, herself, was imprisoned at Jefferson Market and then deported back to Europe, where she would later be arrested by the Gestapo and murdered in Auschwitz, along with her lover Hella Olstein.
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