'Homo Nest Raided'

[Shana A]

'Homo Nest Raided'

http://www.washblade.com/blog/blog.cfm?blog_id=25896

The article below was published in the "New York Daily News" on July 6, 1969, and is filled with anti-gay stereotypes from the headline right through to the final paragraph. This was a time before LGBT media outlets existed to any significant degree; there was no HRC or GLAAD to protest the biased news coverage. The Washington Blade, like many other publications, was founded just after Stonewall. The events at the Inn were a powerful catalyst for the formation of gay newspapers and activist organizations that sprouted in the 1970s.

Homo Nest Raided

Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad

By JERRY LISKER, New York Daily News, July 6, 1969

She sat there with her legs crossed, the lashes of her mascara-coated eyes beating like the wings of a hummingbird. She was angry. She was so upset she hadn't bothered to shave.

A day old stubble was beginning to push through the pancake makeup. She was a he. A queen of Christopher Street.