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Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:02
40 year ago: June 28, 1969 - The Stonewall Inn, Manhattan's Greenwich Village
Author: Equal
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:02
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:02
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Stonewall rebel reflects 40 years after NYC riots By MARCUS FRANKLIN, Associated Press Writer Marcus Franklin, Associated Press Writer � Sat Jun 27, 7:48 pm ET NEW YORK � Raymond Castro was a regular at The Stonewall Inn in 1969, finding it a haven from a world where gay men and women could be arrested for kissing or holding hands in public. Inside the bar, where plywood covered the windows, warning lights served as a signal for couples to stop dancing. When police raided the bar in the past for selling liquor without a license, patrons normally submitted to arrest or dispersed quietly. But on June 28, Castro recalled, people fought back. As officers tried to throw him in a police wagon, Castro used the vehicle as a spring to push back, knocking them to the ground. "They literally carried me into the ... wagon and threw me in there," recalled Castro, now 67. "It must've been the motivation of the crowd that inspired me to resist. Or maybe at that point enough was enough." The several days of disturbances that followed the uprising at the bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village became one of the defining moments of the gay rights movement. Thousands of people are converging on the city for gay pride events to mark the riots' 40th anniversary, while a bill is pending in the Legislature to make New York the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage. Castro said the demonstrations became a catalyst for years of progress allowing gays and lesbians to live more open lives � although he didn't see it at the time. "I never thought 40 years ago that it would turn out to be much of anything," he said in a phone interview. "I had no clue of history being made." Castro, who now lives in Madeira Beach, Fla., outside St. Petersburg, is far removed from Stonewall. But his name surfaced in newly released NYPD police reports documenting arrests during the riots. The reports had previously redacted names of some arrested on the first night, but were obtained in May under the Freedom of Information Law by OutHistory.Org, a Web site run by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York. Another name that appears in police reports for the first time is that of Marilyn Fowler, confirming earlier accounts that a woman was one of the main instigators of initial resistance to police. "There are many witnesses to the Stonewall riots who say a woman, a lesbian presumably, played an important role in intensifying the resistance when they tried to arrest her and put her in the wagon," said Jonathan Ned Katz, the Web site's director, who recently obtained the documents. "It's a very important name to be discovered." And for Castro, the name refutes other long-held beliefs that the Stonewall demonstrators were all white gay men. "It wasn't just gays," said Castro, who was born in Puerto Rico and left in 1945. "It wasn't just white gays." "You had straight people sympathetic to gays. People of the arts. You had people who had had enough (of the police). You had Latinos, you had blacks, you had whites, Chinese, you had everything. It was a melting pot. Young, old. Fems, butches." Castro recalled being arrested with a woman on June 28 but didn't remember her name. He was arrested on a harassment charge, according to the police report, that was later dismissed. "Defendants ... did shove and kick the officer ..." reads the report, one of nine NYPD documents Katz posted on the Web site. It was hot and humid the night police officers raided the inn for selling liquor without a license. Police estimated 200 patrons were thrown out of Stonewall, according to a June 29, 1969, New York Times article. After the raid, the crowd outside the Stonewall swelled to about 400, according to the Times account, citing police estimates. Police were "attempting to leave premises with prisoners" when "they were confronted by a large crowd who attempted to stop them from removing prisoners. The crowd became disorderly," read a copy of the NYPD complaint. Four police officers were injured, including one with a broken wrist, according to the Times, which described the scene as a "rampage" by hundreds of young men. Thirteen people were arrested that first night on charges including harassment, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest, the story says. As the raid moved outside, with people hurling coins, stones, garbage and insults at the police, Castro was somehow pushed back inside the bar, where police held him and others. After a while, two police officers escorted him out of the bar in handcuffs, he said, before he pushed back as he was escorted into the wagon. There are little reminders of Stonewall in Manhattan's Greenwich Village today. The building was designated a national landmark in 1999, and currently houses a bar unaffiliated with the inn. At the time, Castro says, patrons would usually knock to get into the Christopher Street inn, while someone inside peered through a peephole to size up the visitor. "If you were one of us they'd let you in," Castro said. "If you were straight or you looked like a cop they'd say 'private club.'" In 1972 Castro left New York City for suburban Long Island, where he met his partner of 30 years, Frank Sturniolo, in a disco. By 1989, the couple had settled in Florida, said Castro, who retired from his job as a decorator in an Entenmann's bakery specialty shop. Castro, who is battling stomach cancer, marveled at the progress for gay rights over the past four decades. In the 1970s, major psychiatric associations removed homosexuality from their lists of mental disorders. The country has more than 400 openly gay and lesbian elected officials, according to the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, a political action committee. Still, Castro and other gay rights advocates say, there's more work to be done. For example, the military's "don't ask, don't tell" remains in place. So does a federal law allowing states to ban or refuse recognition of same-sex marriages. To Castro's disappointment, Florida voters passed a constitutional amendment last November banning same-sex marriage and civil unions, as did voters in other states, including California. "I hope that I see it in Florida some day," he said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090627/ap_on_re_us/us_stonewall_anniversary;_ylt=AsZChnIDTziUwE4SepSeZWas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTMzZzltNzdpBGFzc2V0Ay9hcC8yMDA5MDYyNy9hcF9vbl9yZV91cy91c19zdG9uZXdhbGxfYW5uaXZlcnNhcnkEcG9zAzQEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2xpc3QEc2xrA3N0b25ld2FsbHJlYg--
Re: 40 year ago: June 28, 1969 - The Stonewall Inn, Manhattan's Greenwich Village
Author: Diogenes
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:15
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:15
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<Equal@America.usa> wrote in message news:91sd45pj3g6f0touf4lvibocudll3jq7ku@4ax.com... > Stonewall rebel reflects 40 years after NYC riots > > > By MARCUS FRANKLIN, Associated Press Writer Marcus Franklin, > Associated Press Writer - Sat Jun 27, 7:48 pm ET > > NEW YORK - Raymond Castro was a regular at The Stonewall Inn in 1969, > finding it a haven from a world where gay men and women could be > arrested for kissing or holding hands in public. ======================== Those were the good old days when queers were queers and no one wanted 'gay' marriage. Even the queers didn't think they deserved the right to marry another homo when they practiced their perversion.
Re: 40 year ago: June 28, 1969 - The Stonewall Inn, Manhattan's Greenwich Village
Author: Equal
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:10
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:10
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:15:09 -0500, "Diogenes" <Diogenes@its.invalid>
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><Equal@America.usa> wrote in message
>news:91sd45pj3g6f0touf4lvibocudll3jq7ku@4ax.com...
>> Stonewall rebel reflects 40 years after NYC riots
>>
>>
>> By MARCUS FRANKLIN, Associated Press Writer Marcus Franklin,
>> Associated Press Writer - Sat Jun 27, 7:48 pm ET
>>
>> NEW YORK - Raymond Castro was a regular at The Stonewall Inn in 1969,
>> finding it a haven from a world where gay men and women could be
>> arrested for kissing or holding hands in public.
>========================
>Those were the good old days when queers were queers and no one wanted 'gay'
>marriage. Even the queers didn't think they deserved the right to marry
>another homo when they practiced their perversion.
Thanks gods that Republicans have honed the fine art of Hypocrisy by
preaching Jesus and "family values" while hiding in the closet to
either pay their gay lovers to rip them a new one OR cheat on their
Stepford Wives. Republicans have such a good record -- of perversion
in Jezuz' name.
* Newt Gingrich, while Republican Speaker of the House, condemning
Bill Clinton for having an affair, while Gingrich cheated on his own
wife
* An American President named George Walker "Dubya" Bush has Jeff
Gannon (homosexual Internet call boy) as his hired "reporter" and
sleeps over at the White House with Bush over a hundred times.
* South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford preaches Jesus then cheats on
wives on Father's Day, and begs wife to let him keep cheating, until
he runs away for a sex vacation to South America's Argentina.
* Senator Larry Craig BUSTED soliciting sex in airport restroom
stalls.
* Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to
molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of
an associate in the petition business.
* Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano pleaded guilty to
fondling a 14-year-old girl.
* Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins
pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.
* Republican legislator Ted Klaudt was charged with raping girls
under the age of 16.
* Republican city councilman Joseph Monteleone Jr. was found
guilty of fondling underage girls.
* Republican congressional aide Jeffrey Nielsen was arrested for
having sex with a 14-year old boy.
* Republican County Commissioner Patrick Lee McGuire surrendered
to police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8 and
13.
* Republican prosecutor Larry Corrigan was arrested for soliciting
sex from 13-year old girls.
* Republican Mayor Jeffrey Kyle Randall was sentenced to 275 days
in jail for molesting two boys -- ages ten and 12 -- during a six-year
period.
* Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with
molesting a 14-year old girl and killed himself three days later.
* Ted Haggard, president of the 30-million member National
Association of Evangelicals and prominent Republican fund raiser,
denounced gays and illegal drugs but was later exposed as a gay
Crystal Meth user.
* Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from
Congress after "sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him
flirting with a 16-year old boy.
* Republican Senator Larry Craig was arrested and charged with
lewd conduct for propositioning an undercover police officer for
homosexual sex in a men's washroom, later pleading guilty to a
lesser charge of disorderly conduct.
* Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative
Washington Times newspaper pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a
13-year old girl on the internet.
* Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres
confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.
* Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd pleaded guilty to
charges of soliciting sex from an 8-year old girl. Floyd has
repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.
* Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling
a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
* Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex
with a 5-year old boy.
* Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted
child molester.
* Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence
in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
* Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child
pornography over the internet.
* Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of
soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.
* Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to
molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years
in prison.
* Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10
years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
* Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with
molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.
* Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a
convicted child rapist in Florida.
* Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran
church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual
act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.
* Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded
guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a
bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
* Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to
three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old
girl.
* Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom
Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
* Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended
during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after
admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.
* Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having
an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
* Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced
to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year old girls, one of whom
appeared in an anti-Gore television commercial.
* Republican fundraiser Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex
parties at the White House during the 1980s.
* Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties
at the White House during the 1980s.
* Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of
having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
* Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of
child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual
photos.
* Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of
sex crimes involving children.
* Republican campaign chairman Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty
to attempted sexual assault on a child and was arrested again five
years later on the same charge.
* Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor
working as a congressional page.
* Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly
Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.
* Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline pleaded guilty to possession of
child pornography on his home computer.
* Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was
charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay
bar.
* Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for
distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
* Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"),
was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful
sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the
drug LSD.
* Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with
molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
* Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having
sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after
the allegations were reported in the media.
* Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to
traditional values, was sentenced prison after offering $20 to a
14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
* Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to
exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
* Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was
sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after
he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
* Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts
of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
* Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to
two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a
14-year old girl.
* Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of
first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
* Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven
felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age
of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
* Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found
guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.
* Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to
molesting a male child.
* Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual
assault on a teenage girl.
* Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his
two daughters.
* Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was
convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.
* Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded
guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
* Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no
contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
* Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession
of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30
months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
* Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state
representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography
was found in his possession.
* Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate
Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of
soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.
* Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a
"good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly
having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in
prison.
* Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for
Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in
the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
* Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed
reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage
girls.
* Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation"
Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced
to six years in prison.
* Republican president of the New York City Housing Development
Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography
on his computer.
* Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard
A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen,
62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has
allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1
million to have sex with a large number of young women.
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