Posted on 09/20/2015 10:46:15 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Two New York legislators are launching a campaign to designate the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village as the first national park site honoring LGBT history.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler are making their announcement in front of the tavern that was the scene of a 1969 uprising that was a key moment for the nascent gay rights movement. …
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BARF ALERT, PLEASE!
And America takes another one right up the ...
Sodomy is nothing to celebrate or commemorate.
The riot was about bar management BLACKMAILING closeted patrons.
Most paid and then one popular guy got pissed about it.
NOTHING to do with rights, same with boy radio geniuses, etc.
ALL MADE UP.
They could...
but BLM would just make them tear it down.
National Park? What’s the protected species? Spotted toads?
The bar was run by the mafia and for regulatory reasons was terchnically a “bottle club” not really a BAR, which meant they had much fewer inspections, didnt have to have an emergency escape at the time, many other things.
How about 13-foot Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes?
I think the Stonewall Inn would look good under grass .... few trees .... weeds ..... rattlesnakes. Copperheads, too -- they're very colorful -- and weasels. And shrews. And rats. Mostly rats. For the weasels to eat.
What? No back door?
No wonder the gays got upset with them.
WTF-it should be a national park because some homosexual drama queens started a stupid barroom brawl? Okay, then, to be fair-make every bar where some “activist” of any “cause” got noticed or caused a riot or a fight a national park—that will give everyone of drinking age a chance to have a beer in a nearby bar or tavern that is in a national park-brilliant...
You won’t believe what they plan to sell at the gift shoppe ...
Poofter Park?
That’s the first time I’ve heard that.
Indeed. A National Puke Site is more like it.
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