Colleague Recalls Advocate Founder Aristide Laurent's Strangest LA Moment

It’s not easy summarizing a life as colorful and eventful as this, but writer Toby Grace does so in a style befitting his last name. Along with inspiring mention of how Aristide refused to surrender to a U.S. Air Force investigation that pressured him to identify fellow gay enlistees, there is this look at the hilarious (in retrospect) LAPD raid of the Mark IV Bathouse:

The charity “slave auction,” intended to raise money for the Gay Community Services Center, was utterly misunderstood by the unimaginative straights in the LAPD Vice Squad.