With the president reportedly poised to construct ‘LGBT ground zero’ a national monument,witnesses and visitors reflect on ‘the night the freaks fought back’ In an upstairs room at the Stonewall Inn in New York, drag legend Lady Bunny paused her stream of filthy jokes and Adele parodies just long enough to explain her audience: “This is ground zero for LGBT rights in this country – and the world.”
Most did not need telling. They may have been too young to have taken part in the 1969 uprising that began when lesbian and homosexual patrons fought back during a police raid, or but they were acutely aware of the region in history that the bar enjoys. Related: A monument for the Stonewall riots is nice,but the fight for LGBT rights goes on | David Ferguson My friends and I ran out when the fighting started and then we picked up rocks and started hurling them at the bar Related: How to exercise a urinal like a lady: a trans woman's rebel tour of North Carolina It’s too little, too late. I don’t mediate it reflects what we had to endure, and I mediate the politicians are grandstandingContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com