[Elle Bee]

The Stonewall 'riots' had nothing to do with gay rights. Matty 'the horse' Inellow was running a blackmail racket for the Gennovise family in their unlicensed 'clubs'

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[2ndDivisionVet]

Tell that to Dear Leader and the rest of the Lavender Mob.

[miss marmelstein]

Have you ever seen the amazing Weegee photos of drag queens and gays being pushed out of paddy wagons into the Tombs in the “bad old days”?! The Stonewall bar disappeared years ago and yet there’s another bar that now bears that name - and stupid tourists gather there thinking it’s the original...of course, Marie’s Crisis goes on and on, decade after decade.

I’m not sure of when this dopey Stonewall myth took off - certainly it was no Rosa Parks moment at the time.