Stonewall wasn’t a legit bar. Because the regulations on bottle clubs are so much lower than for bars (little running required and just one point of exit), it was a Bottle Club and it was run by The Mob.
Stonewall had TWO income streams —selling booze and blackmailing closeted gay guys who were problem customers; not paying on time, or just not paying, or repeatedly hitting on guys who weren’t interested in them, or fighting.
Most of them time the guys getting blackmailed got pissed and paid. But sometimes they threw a fit, and Stonewall was one of those times when a yuge fight broke out, not just eye-rolling, scoffing and pulling hair but fists thrown, etc.
Plus the media was mob friendly so they reported on the ruckus in a way that made it seem like the cops had been somehow oppressive.
The Left transformed Stonewall from a tizzy on steroids and injected it with a bunch of made-up righteous outrage to make it into some type of moral cause.
Just like the did with that homo Wyoming meth dealer Matthew Shepard; they turned him into a Christlike figure crucified on a barbwire fence owing to nothing more than intolerance.
It was BS:
Shepard had told two other gay meth dealers that he’d given them AIDS. Before that they did envy his drug pipeline from Chicago —they wanted those. But after his little AIDS outburst they got pissed and went and killed their rival drug dealer.
Shepard was leaning against a post that formed part of a barbed-wire fence, he wasn’t HUNG on it.
Big Media have been pathological liars for a very long time.
Don’t forget the gay “martyr,” Harvey Milk. He was simply a Vic Morrow award* winner. Milk wasn’t a target, Dan White was after Mayor George Moscone. If Milk had hunkered down in his office, he would have probably lived through it all.
*Exact wrong place, exact wrong time.