[lbo-talk] happy Stonewall

[Mycos]

Leigh Meyers wrote:
> On Monday, June 27, 2005 11:45 AM [PDT],
> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>At 8:46 PM -0600 6/26/05, Thomas Allen Heald wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The Pridelets Files for June 27
>>>  On this day in 1969, nine plainclothes policeman enter the
>>>Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street intending to shut down the
>>>bar for operating without a liquor license. They arrest a bartender,
>>>doorman, and three transvestites and then try to leave. The key word
>>>here being "try." An angered crowd begins throwing bricks, bottles
>>>and even coins at the officers who retreat into the Stonewall. The
>>>mob breaks down the door, screaming "PIGS!" and "FAGGOT COPS!" One
>>>terrified officer tells them "We'll shoot the first motherfucker
>>>that comes through." Protesters then try and set the bar ablaze,
>>>while the cops bash one protester in the head a dozen times. Things
>>>finally calm down after about forty-five minutes, but the gay rights
>>>movement will never be the same. 
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> 
> I watched as a couple of guys got to rocking a parking meter back 
> and forth until it came up with it's concrete "plug" still attached. 
> They proceeded to run it through an empty police car's windshield. 
> 
> One of the defining moments of my teenage years, along with the
> Great Squirrel Riot, Washington Square Park, Summer '68. 
> 
> Leigh
> http://www.leighm.net
> 
> 
> 

If only the youth of today would get off their asses and start 
"defining themselves".
> 
> 

-- 

Gary Williams

"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
- John Stuart Mill

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