Let's Go to the Movies!
by Joseph DaBrow
http://www.metroline-online.com/column1.html (http://www.metroline-online.com/column1.html)
As we enter the Pride month I for one hope the community takes a moment to reflect back on all the effort put forth by gay men and women in the past to secure the freedom and acceptance we currently enjoy today. Fighting during a period in time where it was hazardous to one�s physical health to be on the forefront. Stonewall was not simply an activist protest where they went home afterwards and partied. They were beaten and dragged away to jail by the police. It was a time when ->-bleeped-<- bashing was an accepted method of controlling homos and keeping them out of the neighborhood. There were no drag queens there at all. It was gay human beings simply standing up for being who they were. Making a stand even though they fully knew the dangers of doing so. That�s true courage no different than that on a battlefield.
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ahem, no drag queens were there??? ::)
Yikes, talk about your revisionist history.
Protesters in the crowd began to scream "Gay Power" and some activists dressed as drag queens started chanting:[8]
We are the Stonewall Girls
We wear our hair in curls
We wear no underwear
We show our pubic hair
We wear our dungarees
Above our nelly knees
Throughout the night the police singled out many transgender people and gender nonconformists, including butch women and effeminate men, among others, often beating them. On the first night alone 13 people were arrested and four police officers, as well as an undetermined number of protesters, were injured.