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Featured Interview:
Jewel Thais-Williams, 72
Text reads, “Jewel Thais-Williams, age 72, is the founder and owner of the Catch One Disco, the oldest continuously running black gay nightclub in the United States. She also runs Village Health Foundation, where she is a licensed acupuncturist. Born in Gary, IN and raised in San Diego, she moved to Los Angeles at 18 to attend school’ she worked in various retail jobs before opening the Catch One in 1973. The Catch One has served as community space for black gay Los Angeles, providing a home for Unity Fellowship Church, ULOAH, Christopher Street West, Minority AIDS project as well as AA and CA support meetings. She lives in Los Angeles.”
She’s hot.
* the most chill woman i’ve ever filmed.
another awesome person born in NWI
Awesome. :)