Gay club pomona

In 1969, the matching year as the Stonewall riots that started the gay-rights movement, what may be the area’s first gay prevent opened in downtown Pomona.

The Rathskeller took over the basement of the Mayfair Hotel, a red-brick hotel across from the Fox Theater. One anecdote may illustrate why homosexual bars found a foothold in Pomona.

The story goes that one night a group of bikers was inside harassing six lesbians. The bartender phoned police, who arrived in minutes, told the bikers the women weren’t interested, please leave, and if you ever arrive back, we’ll arrest you for disturbing the peace. The bartender was encouraged to call anytime there was trouble.

That was just one of the eye-openers in a analyze paper by a former Cal Poly Pomona student who documented Pomona’s same-sex attracted and lesbian lock scene for a class project.

Delana Martin got an A-plus for her 115-page paper, “Pomona Underground: Gay and Queer woman Bars 1969-2012,” that collected histories and photos from a scene that is all but hidden to most of us.

Martin, a sapphic and a self-described “Pomona girl,” came up with the topic for her urban planning class after her first

Telling the Untold Stories of Immigrant Sons: 'Brown and Gay in L.A.'.

Sociology Professor Anthony Ocampo is that favorite cousin with whom you share your secrets because he’s been in your shoes, veiling his own mysteries until he came out at 22. “As a queer person of color, ambient terror wasn’t an entirely new feeling,” he writes in the preface of “Brown and Gay in L.A.: The Lives of Immigrant Sons.”

Now free in paperback from New York University Press, “Brown and Same-sex attracted in L.A.” has been celebrated as a masterful ethnography. Ocampo forgoes formulaic academic writing, using storytelling to investigate the culturally complicated and largely unstudied coming-of-age and coming-out stories of Filipino and Latino Angelenos.

Ocampo studies immigration, gender and sexuality and Latino-Asian identity. For this book, he interviewed dozens of second-generation American Gen-Xers and millennials with roots in the Philippines, Mexico and Latin America. Their narratives grab center stage — family estrangements and fragile reconciliations, academic achievement as a survival strategy, enduring racism and homophobia, love and dating,

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Clubs and Organizations

CPP Pride Club

The Cal Poly Pomona Event Club is a student-led organization dedicated to creating a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment for Gay students and allies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Black Queer Collective

The Jet Queer Collective at Cal Poly Pomona is assigned to creating a welcoming and safe space where Black queer students can fully express and accept their authentic selves.

oSTEM

oSTEM is an organization for gender non-conforming students and allies with the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, math). They strive to educate, strengthen, and engage in a diverse community to spot, address, and advocate for the needs of LGBTQIA+ students in the STEM fields. They fulfill these needs through mentorship connections, networking opportunities, strategic collaborations, and professional leadership training. For more information, please contact them.