how can they be so brazen with their lies? here is a 2010 pbs article about stonewall where sargeant reflects on his decision to become a police officer:
"In 1971, Sargeant left New York for Stamford, Connecticut, where he decided to become a policeman a few years later. "I wanted to see if I could make a difference," he said, "and having seen the situation at Stonewall and how the NYPD handled that I thought I could do it differently. Stonewall wasn't the only riot I saw. I'd been caught up in riots in the Village before and watched what the police did."
this is the flyer that he and craig rodwell distributed:
image text: GET THE MAFIA AND THE COPS OUT OF GAY BARS. The nights of Friday, June 27, 1969, and Saturday, June 28, 1969 will go down in history as the first time that thousands of Homosexual men and women went out into the streets to protest the intolerable situation which has existed in New York City for many years -- namely, the Mafia (or syndicate) control of this city's Gay bars in collusion with certain elements in the Police Dept. of the City of New York. The demonstrations were triggered by a Police raid on the Stonewall Inn late Friday night, June 27th. The purported reason for the raid was the Stonewall's lack of a liquor license. Who's kidding whom? Can anybody really believe that an operation as big as the Stonewall could continue for almost 3 years just a few blocks from the 6th Precinct house without having a liquor license? No! The Police have known about the Stonewall operation all along. What has happened is the presence of new "brass" in the 6th Precint which has vowed to "drive the fags out of the Village."
Many of you have noticed one of the signs which the "management" of the Stonewall has placed outside stating "Legalize gay bars and lick the problem." This is untrue and they know it. Judge Kenneth Keating (a former U.S. senator) ruled in January, 1968 that even close dancing between Homosexuals is legal. Since that date there has been nothing illegal, per se, about a Gay bar. What is illegal about New York City's Gay bars today is the Mafia (or syndicate) stranglehold on them. Legitimate Gay businessmen are afraid to open decent Gay bars with a healthy social atmosphere (as opposed to the hell-hole atmosphere of places typified by the Stonewall) because of fear of pressure from the unhappy alliance of the Mafia and the elements in the Police Dept. who accept payoffs and protect the Mafia monopoly.
We at the Homophile Youth Movement (HYMN) believe that the only way this monopoly can be broken is through the action of Homosexual men and women themselves. We obviously cannot rely on the various agencies of government who for years have known about this situation but who have refused to do anything about it. Therefore, we urge the following:
1. That Gay businessmen step forward and open Gay bars that will be run legally with competitive pricing and a healthy social atmosphere.
2. That Homosexual men and women boycott places like the Stonewall. The only way, it seems, that we can get criminal elements out of the Gay bars is simply to make it unprofitable for them.
3. That the Homosexual citizens of New York City, and concerned Heterosexuals, write to Mayor Lindsay demanding a thorough investigation and effective action to correct this intolerable situation. - Homophile Youth Movement - HYMN
this leaflet argued that there was an internal conspiracy surrounding bars like stonewall that gave the police and mafia control of the gay social sphere by controlling the bars. rather than gay bars owned by gay people, they were owned by crime families. and that was what gay rights activists of the time like sargeant were protesting. but no, it must be because of the "gnc and bipoc" patrons of stonewall... except that very few drag queens were even allowed past the bouncers and the majority of patrons were white males.
and people will believe it because they can't be bothered to read a single article/interview.
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