[CapedCrusader]

Like a few years ago in NYC, when they tried to equate the so-called "Stonewall Riots" with historical civil rights struggles. A bunch of creepy transvestites start hitting cops with their purses, and all of a sudden they're heroic passive resistors? Please.

Actually, the Stonewall riots in 1969 were in retaliation to the NYPD who were in the habit of flagrantly invading the Stonewall gay bar and carting all the patrons off to the pokey. A clear violation of basic civil rights.

[WaveThatFlag]

Actually, the Stonewall riots in 1969 were in retaliation to the NYPD who were in the habit of flagrantly invading the Stonewall gay bar and carting all the patrons off to the pokey. A clear violation of basic civil rights.

Your recollection of gay rights history is accurate. My personal disagreement was not with the behavior of the original Stonewall rioters. It was with the gay revisionists who tried to morally equate the Stonewallers to the American civil rights movement. A number of black leaders chafed at that one.