November 29, 2017
Banner showing KKK initiation in Miami in the 1920s
Onlookers watch as the Ku Klux Klan initiates new members at a Miami golf course in the 1920s. Bettmann / Getty Images

“Although wildly different, the reason the events at Stonewall and La Paloma share some general overlapping threads is that queer joints have historically been key sites of resistance, change and even revolution,” argues Professor Julio Capó Jr. in his new article titled “Why a Forgotten KKK Raid on a Gay Club in Miami Still Matters 80 Years Later” published in Time. In uncovering the forgotten 1937 raid of a gay club conducted by the KKK in Miami 80 years ago, he shows why we must understand narratives of queer resistance beyond Stonewall at this political moment.