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Fun fact: one of the reasons a gross, poorly-maintained, mafia-run, scammy bar was so popular is that other gay bars/private clubs were WILDLY classist and racist. The Stonewall Inn was one of the few places where gay and trans POC were accepted and could form a community within a queer space. A lot of the kids who had been kicked out and disowned by their families would hang out there simply to be off the streets for the night, which is in fact how Sylvia Rivera met Marsha; Marsha took Sylvia under her wing and taught her how to pass better, helped her find housing and work, etc. Boystown in Chicago has much the same problem. Once a neighborhood full of punks and all kinds of gender-nonconforming/queer/trans people, especially drag queens, it soon became a queer Mecca. As gay white men moved in, they slowly drove up the cost of living in the neighborhood until the only people who could afford to live there were high-earning gay white male couples. Who promptly started calling the cops on the queer POC (primarily Black) kids who were literally coming and going from the only gay youth center in the city. We just had a Pride Without Prejudice March about it, and a LOT of queens of color shared their stories of discrimination, humiliation, and assault from the gay men and bars in the area. If anyone feels like donating, the Brave Space Alliance is committed to an intersectional approach to the queer struggle in our community here. Also, has anyone heard of the Compton Cafeteria Uprising in 1966? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%27s_Cafeteria_riot Thanks for this thread! Happy Stonewall Day!
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