Summary
"The sudden specter of 'gay power' erected its brazen head and spat out a fairy tale the likes of which the area has never seen," wrote one Village Voice columnist on July 3, 1969. "The forces of faggotry, spurred by a Friday night raid on one of the city's largest, most popular and longest lived gay bars, the Stonewall Inn, rallied Saturday night in an unprecedented protest against the raid and continued Sunday night to assert presence, possibility, and pride until the early hours of Monday morning.... The result was a kind of liberation, as the gay brigade emerged from the bars, back rooms, and bedrooms of the village and became street people."
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The Right to Be
Straight people come in all shapes and sizes, from all professions and ideologies, politically active and apolitical.
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