Bitsy Gomez - In Memory

I didn’t want to go the Elks Club downtown anymore and deal with the boys and the police riots. I drove up from Long Beach to Crenshaw/Slauson to see Bitsy Gomez, who usually had a butch-girl-trucker solution to everything. She listened to my whole sad tale, took me up on her roof and said, “Let’s light up and shoot my guns.”

My inspiration and friend, B…