Vito Spatafore could not be reached for comment.
Posted on 06/20/2010 8:15:41 PM PDT by AtlasStalled
On the Friday night of June 27, 1969 the NYPD raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, and a firestorm of protest erupted that continued over the next several nights. The Stonewall riots are considered the birth of the modern gay rights movement, and over the following decades often has been characterized as a protest against police harassment. However, in actuality, the Stonewall Inn was raided pursuant to an investigation against its reputed mob owners, and the ensuing rage on the streets by its gay patrons was directed as much against the wise guys as the boys in blue. Of course, a few rowdy nights by some angry patrons were not going to chase the Mafia out of the lucrative gay bar racket which it had controlled for decades in New York City. Indeed, in 1986 the feds obtained a conviction against Matthew "Matty the Horse" Ianniello, the reputed Genovese capo who allegedly was behind the Stonewall Inn, for a skimming operation involving some of his gay bars. The question remains whether the mob to this day still has a hidden hand in some gay establishments, and based upon claims from some industry insiders, the answer may be yes.
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Vito Spatafore could not be reached for comment.
Oh my gosh...so the truth is that Stone Wall was ALL A **LIE**..!!!
I am NOT going to ask.
This “story” is 12 days old and it has been posted here before at least twice. Are you spamming this cr*p? Why?
I have an old friend who was at Stonewall. I’ll take their version of events, thanks.
If you worked in the news biz in NYC, this story is 40 years old.
“I have an old friend who was at Stonewall. I’ll take their version of events, thanks.”
Qhat was their version of events?
“I have an old friend who was at Stonewall. I’ll take their version of events, thanks.”
What was their version of events? Are they saying the Stonewall Inn was not mob owned and the cops did not conduct the raid pursuant to a mob investigation? I’m unclear to what version of events you are referring. Thanks.
Do these sissies also suffer from Alzheimer’s? I did not mention about the “event?” BTW - They do think aluminum cans contribute to Alzheimers.
My point is this story was in the news (check the date on FR aging friends of fairies) on June 8th. The stupid story has been posted on FR at least twice in the past 12 days.
Why are people re-posting 12 day old stories multiple times about sissies? Hopefully the Cosa Nostra threw a good beating on these friends of Dorothy.
“Why are people re-posting 12 day old stories multiple times about sissies?”
I thought the story was about the mob . . . what effect do aluminum cans have on reading comprehension?
>>> What was their version of events? Are they saying the Stonewall Inn was not mob owned and the cops did not conduct the raid pursuant to a mob investigation?
Being the NYC of the time most any raid on a nightclub or bar could claim some mob motive if they needed a more legitimate sounding reason. The motivation for the raid seems less “Mafia” then the entertaining opportunity to bust a bunch of transvestites. Serious anti Mafia raids would have gone after the construction unions and refuse haulers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
“The motivation for the raid seems less “Mafia” then the entertaining opportunity to bust a bunch of transvestites. Serious anti Mafia raids would have gone after the construction unions and refuse haulers.”
So was the 1985 indictment against Matty the Horse Ianniello — and his subsequent conviction — for his skimming operation involving several of his gay bars also gay harassment or was that a “serious anti Mafia raid”?
"Sissies" and homosexuals are two different things. One does not necessarily equal the other.
BTW, I have read that the Stonewall raid was precipitated by the prevalence of chicken hawks there. Which means that the riots were over the right to prey upon the young.
The Stonewall riots are an urban legend by now. So what if the mob owned or controlled gay bars? They are involved in porn, gambling, drug dealing, etc., and no one riots over that...
The “Chicken Hawk” i.e. boy prostitution ring ran in many homosexual bars was covered in an earlier thread about Stonewall.
“And Bruce Benderson, author of User, writes the following about the Hay Market for 3am Literature:
Don’t believe the hype about the infamous Stonewall bar being an oppressive place where sad homosexuals had to hide from police oppression and where Mafia bosses exploited their desperation. Any illegal bar run by the Mafia always has the hottest, most inspiring atmosphere. And excitement, risk and underground activity are what makes the best writing. The Mafia may have created a lot of heartache in our cities, but we owe them a debt for having created such good illicit bars, which were at the basis of a lot of good American literature. As for me, I probably wouldn’t have written a decent sentence if I hadn’t discovered Times Square and the hot Puerto Rican hustlers who came down from the South Bronx to frequent its mostly Mafia-owned bars. * * * The first and most famous Times Square bar I ever went to was called the Haymarket. It was a big, sprawling place on Eighth Avenue with cheap drinks, a long bar counter, booths you could sit in and a big pool table. In those days, a lot of the hustlers were poor white kids. Since the minimum drinking age in those days was 18 (rather than today’s 21), there was some very young trade in there. The place was pulsing with young testosterone and horny old men willing to spend the $20 on some fresh meat.”
http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/2010/04/mafia-exploitation-of-kids-really-a-new-low.html
Regarding the use of the word “sissy”; it has several meanings and is used inside the sodomite community as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissy
What I read was that the reason for police interest was that the chicken hawks were buying drinks for boys under the legal drinking age.
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