Claim 1: The Stonewall Inn was owned by the Genovese Crime family.
This is true, but only seems to be a way to downplay that this was in fact one of the only gay bars in New York City and the only one where dancing was allowed.
Claim 2: Stonewall was raided for legitimate reasons.
It's not clear if this is true or not, but the conduct definitely suggests otherwise. Why did they go out of their way to arrest drag queens or trans people?
Claim 3: Time lauds Stonewall for youth sex work.
Hilariously false. He did not even try. Even in his own snippet of the article, you can clearly see they are referring to San Francisco and it's clear in the actual article that they are lauding sex workers as a whole for their role in the movement. There's no mention of Stonewall or any other event centering around youth sex work.
Claim 4: Marsha P. Johnson was not trans.
Most likely false, but we can't know for sure. The term "transgender" only became commonly used after her death. She identified at the time as a drag queen and a transvestite, but she used she/her pronouns. It's true that she at various times referred to herself as a gay man, but that's not a smoking gun in the historical context.
Doyle dismisses all trans people as cross-dressers anyways, so his opinion is worthless here.
Claim 5: Marsha P. Johnson wasn't even there.
Are we just fucking around at this point? How was she at the event to describe it if she wasn't even there? He doesn't appear to be claiming that she wasn't there for the initial raid, he's making it sound like she wasn't present for the riots. What a joke.'
Claim 6: Stonewall rioters were pedophiles.
Doyle doesn't outright say this, but it's the implication. The entire video he keeps alluding to youth sex workers and now he is talking about how the rioters wanted to lower the age of consent.
The kernel of truth is that they DID lower the age of consent... to the same age of consent that everyone else had. That's right, gay people had a different age of consent at the time. The demand was merely for equality. Imagine that.
Conclusion: Stonewall's history is dirty.
There's some truth to this, of course, but pretty much entirely due to the owners of the Stonewall Inn being the Genovese Crime family. That's really the extent of it. Most of Doyle's claims were just meant to mislead you, which is the norm for him.
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