Jewel Thais-Williams, owner of the nightclub Jewel's Catch One, is photographed in the now-closed nightclub in 2015. (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times) Jewel Thais-Williams, the founder of the ...
In 1973, when Jewel Thais-Williams opened Jewel’s Catch One on Pico Boulevard in Arlington Heights, gay black women didn’t own nightclubs–particularly nightclubs that catered to gay black people. From ...
In decades past, when filmmaker C. Fitz would travel to Los Angeles, she knew where she’d go out dancing: Jewel’s Catch One. The cavernous multi-story club thrummed with music and sweating bodies, ...
Jewel Thais-Williams, owner of the legendary Los Angeles Black queer disco Jewel’s Catch One and an activist for HIV treatment and other causes, has died at age 86. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ ...
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Jewel Thais-Williams, founder of beloved Black queer nightclub Jewel's Catch One, dies at 86
Jewel Thais-Williams, the founder of the pioneering Black lesbian and queer nightclub Jewel’s Catch One in Los Angeles, has died. She was 86. Thais-Williams' death was confirmed by KTLA and by several ...
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