Southern Poverty Law Center: Weekend Read - The First Pride Was a Riot.
June 22, 2019
June 22, 2019
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, June 22 -- Southern Poverty Law Center issued the following news:
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- Police raids were frequent and expected among the gay bars in Greenwich Village in the late 1960s.
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In every state except Illinois, simply being gay was a crime. At the time, New York City was seen as a relatively safe haven for LGBTQ+ folks across the nation. But law enforcement routinely seized on state laws authorizing the arrest of anyone for . . .
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- Police raids were frequent and expected among the gay bars in Greenwich Village in the late 1960s.
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In every state except Illinois, simply being gay was a crime. At the time, New York City was seen as a relatively safe haven for LGBTQ+ folks across the nation. But law enforcement routinely seized on state laws authorizing the arrest of anyone for . . .