Man Throws Brick Into Wdow At NYC Gay Bar, Vio Shows

Contents:

• STONEWALL HOSTS RALLY, NY UPS POLICE PRENCE AFTER GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG
• MAN THROWS BRICK INTO WDOW AT NYC GAY BAR, VIO SHOWS
• DPE PRR BOMB THREAT, GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT EVAD COLORADO RED FLAG GUN LAW
• SPECT COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG HELD ON MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG
• SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB CLUB Q EXPECTED TO TAKE PLEA AL

STONEWALL HOSTS RALLY, NY UPS POLICE PRENCE AFTER GAY NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG

Muny is on edge after the before the Colorado mass shootg, a gay bar Manhattan was targeted for the fourth time this month when someone threw a brick at s Moon for The New York TimNov.

MAN THROWS BRICK INTO WDOW AT NYC GAY BAR, VIO SHOWS

21, 2022On Saturday, revelry at a gay bar Manhattan was terpted for the fourth time this month by someone throwg a brick at s plate-glass wdows at the bar, VERS, are shatterproof, so the attacks have not jured anyone, said s owner, David DeParola. The adly mass shootg has shaken gay muni across the sense of unease has been acutely felt New York, one of the untry’s gay cultural centers and the se of the 1969 Stonewall Inn uprisg, which is wily viewed as the birth of the morn gay rights York’s L. Muny, like gay muni elsewhere, has been eply troubled by verbal attacks recent years on drag events, om club nights to children’s drag queen story hours at librari.

DPE PRR BOMB THREAT, GAY CLUB SHOOTG SPECT EVAD COLORADO RED FLAG GUN LAW

The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, began the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club loted Greenwich Village New York Cy.

The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement the Uned Stat and around the world. Constant Raids at Gay BarsThe 1960s and precedg s were not welg tim for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Amerins. For stance, solicatn of same-sex relatns was illegal New York such reasons, LGBT dividuals flocked to gay bars and clubs, plac of refuge where they uld exprs themselv openly and socialize whout worry.

SPECT COLORADO GAY CLUB SHOOTG HELD ON MURR, HATE CRIME CHARG

However, the New York State Liquor Authory penalized and shut down tablishments that served alhol to known or spected LGBT dividuals, argug that the mere gatherg of homosexuals was “disorrly.

SPECT MASS SHOOTG AT COLORADO GAY NIGHTCLUB CLUB Q EXPECTED TO TAKE PLEA AL

But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U.

Gay rights anizatn, The Society for Human Rights (SHR), was found 1924 by Henry Gerber, a German immigrant. Police raids forced them to disband 1925, but not before they had published several issu of their newsletter, “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. In 1966, three years before Stonewall, members of The Mattache Society, an anizatn dited to gay rights, staged a “sip-” where they openly clared their sexualy at taverns, darg staff to turn them away and sug tablishments who did.

When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars. In 1966, they purchased Stonewall Inn (a “straight” bar and rtrant), cheaply renovated , and reopened the next year as a gay bar. It weled drag queens, who received a bter receptn at other gay bars and clubs.

It was a nightly home for many naways and homels gay youths, who panhandled or shoplifted to afford the entry fee.

And was one of the few—if not the only—gay bar left that allowed were still a fact of life, but ually rpt ps would tip off Mafia-n bars before they occurred, allowg owners to stash the alhol (sold whout a liquor license) and hi other illegal activi. Stonewall's LegacyThough the Stonewall uprisg didn’t start the gay rights movement, was a galvanizg force for LGBT polil activism, leadg to numero gay rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) the one-year anniversary of the rts on June 28, 1970, thoands of people marched the streets of Manhattan om the Stonewall Inn to Central Park what was then lled “Christopher Street Liberatn Day, ” Ameri’s first gay pri para. The para’s official chant was: “Say loud, gay is proud.

”In 2016, then-Print Barack Obama signated the se of the rts—Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surroundg streets and siwalks—a natnal monument regnn of the area’s ntributn to gay Gallery The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny. At the time, homosexual acts remaed illegal every state except Illois, and bars and rtrants uld get shut down for havg gay employe or servg gay patrons.

Most gay bars and clubs New York at the time were operated by the Mafia, who paid rptible police officers to look the other way and blackmailed wealthy gay patrons by threateng to “out” them.

Here, protters monstrate outsi the New York gay bar, Christopher's the early hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn was raid by police wh no warng. They are pictured at a 1973 rally for gay rights New York P.