40 years later, is it time for a new Stonewall?
By Hardy Haberman Contributing Writer
Jun 18, 2009 - 12:22:52 PM
http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_11417.phpIn the summer of 1969, I was still coming to terms with my sexuality. I had yet to visit a gay bar, since the drinking age was 21, and most of my sexual experience was limited to fooling around with high school and college friends.
That summer, I remember seeing a small news article in the local paper about homosexuals rioting in New York City. There had been numerous protests over the war and for various other causes that summer, so another march or another riot only garnered minor attention in Dallas.
A few days after the Stonewall riots, a young man crashed the doors at NBC and interrupted the newscast of "Today" show announcer Frank Blair. The brief scuffle was quickly brushed aside and a commercial hastily filled the screen.
