6 Feb 2022 8:06 pm
1966 COMPTON'S CAFETERIA RIOT IN SAN FRANCISCOCannonpointer » 06 Feb 2022, 7:55 pm » wrote: ↑ Remember when the queers got too busy fighting the cops during the 70s, and we were left with the nig nogs handling fashion?
That was one **** up decade.
1969 NYC'S STONEWALL INN
GAY MEN, LESBIANS, TRANSVESTITES, CISGENDER HETEROSEXUAL LEFTIST RADICALS FOUGHT WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT AGAINST AN OPPRESSIVE POLICE APPARATUS. THE REBELLIOUS QUEERS DISPLAYED A BRAVERY NOT EXPECTED BY THE STRAIGHT WORLD OF THE TIME WHILE MORE AND MORE CAME TO FIGHT TAKING BLOWS FROM CLUB WIELDING COPS BUT NEVER SURRENDERING
Queer people and the U.S. communist movement, 1969-1979 – Workers World