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Because of President Obama’s inaugural speech, the famous Stonewall Riot of 1969 has officially taken its place as one of the great moments in American history.
However, some people have taken it upon themselves to demonize what exactly happened at that bar in 1969 which helped spark the modern day gay rights movement even to the point of rewriting history.
Buster Wilson of the American Family Association inaccurately claims that Stonewall was a hotel full of homosexuals who got violent during a police raid (no doubt implying that the police found gays having all sorts of illegal sex):
But in all honesty, describing what happened at Stonewall, including the events which led up to it, belongs to those who were there. I think they should have precedent in telling the story:
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Perhaps he’s confusing Stonewall with a personal remembrance.
That was the context in which my dad had his divorce and real coming out. He had spent years in therapy trying to talk himself out of being gay, and it hadn’t worked. We moved to New York (then NJ) in 66, and he just kind of disappeared on the family, into the city, down to the Village many, many evenings. A hard, hard time for my mother, too. There was just a real conviction suddenly on many people’s part that they had to start being who they were. Both of my parents had been civil rights activists, so the notion of the LGBT as a human rights fight had always made complete sense to me; he didn’t really live to see it assume such proportions. Thanks for this post.
Maybe Buster Wilson got arrested in a hotel that night