[lbo-talk] happy Stonewall

[Tommy Kelly]

>   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 |...|


>Things finally calm down after about forty-five
>minutes, but the gay rights movement will never be the same.

What a minute, what a minute... the gay rights movement started over fucking
alcohol? What kind of gays where they? Irish? German?