My Final Words on Cooper Donuts

You and I are going to sit down and discuss the matter!

Pride Month has arrived, which invariably entails an ardent escalation in ecstatic posts about Los Angeles’s Cooper Donuts, and its famed 1950s riot, the first-ever LGBTQ+ uprising in American history.

As you may know, I debunked the tale at some length. Despite that, the City of Los Angeles decided to make Second & Main “Cooper Do-Nuts/Nancy Valverde Square” because City Council thought it more fun to listen to fact-challenged folk make impassioned history-denying entreaties rather than consider, you know, actual history.

All my debunking was done over the course of five separate blog posts, so, I’ve distilled the salient points of Cooper/Valverde Debunking into one handy-dandy essay. Actually, it’s more of a one-act play, modeled after My Dinner with Andre, a concept I know fills you with both dread and curiosity.

Thus, click here ↓↓↓

https://bunkerhilllosangeles.com/2025/05/31/my-final-words-on-cooper-donuts/

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