A full decade before Stonewall, patrons at Cooper Do-nuts — a 24-hour café on Main Street frequented by drag queens, hustlers and gay men — fought back when police tried to arrest several of them during a routine ID check. Whatever was on the tables went flying, coffee cups and doughnuts included, and the crowd outside started shaking the squad cars. The event is patchily documented — even the year has been disputed by witnesses — and the LAPD has said any contemporary records were destroyed long ago. What survives comes largely from novelist John Rechy, who was one of the people police tried to arrest that night.