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The Stonewall Riot Hoax
American Thinker ^ | 07/19/2024 | Robert Weissberg

Posted on 07/19/2024 9:33:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The left is obsessed with falsifying American history. For these radicals, the Founding Fathers did not write the Constitution to form a more perfect union; it was merely a ploy by racist white males to protect slavery.

Similarly, those who settled America were not seeking a better life for their families; their aim was genocide against peaceful indigenous people who were careful stewards of the environment.

The latest example of this historical falsification recently occurred in New York City, where President Biden, accompanied by Governor Kathy Hochul and rock star Elton John, assembled for the grand opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, run by the National Park Service.  President Biden lavishly praised the riot, saying, it “marked a turning point for civil rights in America and inspired the hearts of millions of people around the world.”  He added that it “remains a symbol of a legacy and leadership in the LGBTQ+ community.”

According to the Memorial’s website, “the Center will offer an immersive experience featuring a rich tapestry of LGBTQIA+ history and culture through a variety of engaging programs, including in-person and virtual tours, informative lecture series, captivating exhibitions, a dedicated theater space, and inspiring visual arts displays.  Upon entering the visitor center, visitors will be guided through a multifaceted learning experience that speaks to today’s generations, encouraging them to carry forward the Stonewall legacy and the ongoing fight for full LGBTQIA+ equality.”  This dedication marks the 55th anniversary of the riots at Greenwich Village’s Stonewall bar, (June 28, 1969), a popular drinking spot favored by flamboyant homosexuals.

This celebration of the Stonewall riot is an outrageous lie. It had zero to do with the rights of gays and is hardly comparable to the black civil rights struggle ...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: greenwichvillage; hoax; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; newyork; riot; stonewall
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First, this characterization that prior to Stonewall, gays were grimly oppressed is wrong.  Yes, homosexual behavior during the pre-Stonewall era was often illegal (though legal prohibition was rarely enforced), and being gay was an occasional occupation liability, but gays were never brutalized second-class citizens.  John Strausbaugh’s The Village carefully describes gay life in the pre-Stonewall era in New York City, and it was hardly oppressive save for those insisting that all constraints on personal behavior are “oppression.”

Prior to the Stonewall riot, gay bars were commonplace in New York City and elsewhere, and, as a resident of Greenwich Village during that “pre-liberation” era, I can attest that each was well known.  Washington Square Park’s northwest corner was a notorious visible “meat market,” where gays freely solicited partners without being arrested.

No organized KKK-like “anti-gay” movement existed in the city, nor did homophobic gangs terrorize homosexuals to “keep them in line.” At worst, individual gay men soliciting sexual activity with young toughs (“rough trade”) were an easy robbery target, since the perpetrators knew that their gay victims seldom called the police. The most serious threat to gays was blackmail — surely no small matter for the victim, but this is still a far cry from the discrimination suffered by African-Americans prior to the early 1960s.

1 posted on 07/19/2024 9:33:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Did you ever hear about “the trucks” ?


2 posted on 07/19/2024 9:40:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: SeekAndFind

when the marxists in the USA are overthrown, will we tear down their monuments, as what happened when marxists were overthrown elsewhere?


3 posted on 07/19/2024 9:41:23 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Steely Tom

The trucks were found on tge West Side below 14th street where the actual meat markets were found. For some reason the meat packing industry was home to many gays and some were known to use the meat delivery trailers as a place to meet up with teens who were gay or who were unsure of their preferences or who could not successfully make a connection with a girl. Cops were notoriouly brutal to the adult men who took advantage of these teens. A scene in Sinatra’s movie The Detective is quite accurate in showing this brutality.


4 posted on 07/19/2024 9:52:56 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: SeekAndFind

I know a guy that lived in SoCal during the ‘70s. He said he and others would routinely attack gays. He said it kind of woke him up when a couple friends told him they’d thrown a guy off a cliff.


5 posted on 07/19/2024 10:02:05 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: SeekAndFind

So, the takeaway from this article is gays didn’t have it as bad as blacks and should have kept quiet so they didn’t end up dying from AIDS due to their own decision to speak up and try to be treated as humans with value. Nice…
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6 posted on 07/19/2024 10:16:23 PM PDT by FightforFreedomCA (Welkome to Amerika...)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Full LGBTQIA+ equality” is put into the same category as an identity you are born with. If people knew the DNA that created LGBTQIA+, they would create a vaccine against it. So far, it should be treated as a learned characteristic that should be dealt with through psychiatry.


7 posted on 07/19/2024 10:19:35 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: jonrick46

You have no idea what you’re talking about.


8 posted on 07/19/2024 10:23:55 PM PDT by FightforFreedomCA (Welkome to Amerika...)
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To: FightforFreedomCA

This article describes the study involving 500,000 subjects to determine if there is a genetic component to sexual identity. You can read it for yourself. It gets me away from your strong objection to whatever I write.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/there-is-no-gay-gene-there-is-no-straight-gene-sexuality-is-just-complex-study-confirms


9 posted on 07/19/2024 11:04:13 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: xkaydet65

Thanks for the movie recommendation.

I heard about them from someone who had seen them. It was the most grotesque thing I ever heard, at least until I heard about The Anvil and The Mineshaft.


10 posted on 07/19/2024 11:08:50 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: jonrick46

I don’t think there is a gay gene, so I don’t need to read the article. Just because there’s no gene doesn’t mean a person can’t have a predisposition for attraction to the same sex. A combination of this “nature” and the “nurture” or upbringing of a person is the more likely explanation. Regardless of how it comes about, it is almost universally not a choice by the individual. And if you think this can be “fixed” through psychiatric care, I suggest you research the utter failure of the ex-gay movement.


11 posted on 07/19/2024 11:47:53 PM PDT by FightforFreedomCA (Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone…)
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To: jonrick46

If it were genetic, they would not have to recruit.

It is a behavioral health disorder.


12 posted on 07/20/2024 1:21:47 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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drjill was there, too......in full suck-up mode.

13 posted on 07/20/2024 3:20:13 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: SeekAndFind
God made man and women distinctively different yet uniquely compatible and complementary, and only joined them together in marriage - as the Lord Jesus Himself specified (Mt. 19:4–6) - and Scripture only condemns homosexual relations wherever they are manifestly dealt with.

And homosexual relations have been tragically primarily responsible for approx. 80% of new HIV cases among men and over 700,000 American deaths, though such is not even the decisive reason why homosexual relations are wrong.

Yet there is still room at the cross for all who will come to God in repentance and faith, and trust in the Divine Son of God sent by the Father, the risen Lord Jesus, to save them on His account, by His sinless shed blood, and thus be baptized and live for Him. Acts 10:36-47

14 posted on 07/20/2024 4:02:34 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: FightforFreedomCA

The takeaway from this article is that the left looks for any opportunity to make a mountain out of a molehill so that they can fire up their base to tear down the country in Cloward-Piven style. Too many gays choose to be are pawns for them.


15 posted on 07/20/2024 4:24:20 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: SeekAndFind; SaveFerris

During his speech, Biden actually called the place “hallowed ground,” putting homosexual pride and sin on a pedestal for Satan. That’s who the globalists worship.


16 posted on 07/20/2024 6:13:51 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: daniel1212

Amen. That’s the Truth.


17 posted on 07/20/2024 6:14:39 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ViLaLuz
Rainbow White House happened on June 26, 2015



There is a determined effort to normalize this all over the world. I'm encouraging people not to attend nor support this stuff. 

NO VIOLENCE suggested nor implied, of course. Do NO harm, Christians.

The Days of Lot are upon us.

Just as prophesied in the New Testament by Jesus Christ Himself:




18 posted on 07/20/2024 6:59:12 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Unfortunately I see this particular sin normalized right here by some on FR.


19 posted on 07/20/2024 7:50:52 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Tell It Right

The article is dishonest and downplays how homosexuals were treated. The “right” is just as complicit in the rhetoric. The problem is, when we view homosexuality through a political lens vs both the truth and grace of the Bible, we’re just demeaning and destroying one another. Souls are lost at the alter of politics.


20 posted on 07/20/2024 9:50:26 AM PDT by FightforFreedomCA (Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone…)
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