The Black Cat Café: A Queer Sanctuary in 1960S San Francisco - Broke-Ass Stuart's Website

The Black Cat Café: A Queer Sanctuary in 1960S San Francisco - Broke-Ass Stuart's Website

Image courtesy of FoundSF On a bustling stretch of Montgomery Street in San Francisco, a black cat once perched atop a bar’s sign—watchful, knowing, and just a little bit mischievous. That cat wasn’t merely a mascot. It was a sentinel for a cultural revolution. The Black Cat Café, operating from the 1940s to the early 1960s, was more than just a bar. It was a bohemian salon, a queer sanctuary, a civil rights battleground, and the stage on which …