00:00The catch offered a place where any and everybody could come.
00:10The guys used to talk always about going out and catching one.
00:17That meant that they were going to go out on the prowl and try to pick somebody up,
00:21and that's how the name Catch One came into being.
00:25The catch was important because at the time that we opened,
00:31there was still an abundance of racism.
00:35They tried to burn her out when they tried to buy her out, but Jewel is my hero.
00:42Not only was she poor, not only was she a woman,
00:46she was a lesbian, and on top of that, a black woman.
00:52People of different lifestyles were actually ordinances against activities of same-sex dancing,
00:59of dressing in transgender clothes.
01:02The Catch One became a haven.
01:10Everyone is welcome to the biggest gay club on the West Coast because it's the best coast.
01:17Eventually the celebrities came, and the money came, and fame came.
01:25It's a fat club and it's a fat neighborhood.
01:27The early 1990s brought in people like Madonna and Sharon Stone and became an underground place.
01:37It was great music, and it was packed.
01:41The bangingest music, the most free-spirited people you can hear prepare to dance.
01:46There's such an eclectic group of people that come to this club.
01:55Men, women, black, white, all nationalities.
01:59When folks call and ask me what kind of club it is, and when it comes to sexuality,
02:05it's for gays, lesbians, bi's, tri's, and otherwise.
02:09Get down, get down, get down, get down, get down, get down the fight, baby.
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