Marking the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riot in New York City on Sunday, CBS’s Anthony Mason declared: "A night of violence that led to a new day for human rights... Stonewall triggered the modern gay rights movement."
Filling in for Sunday Morning host Charles Osgood, Mason explained: "...it was around 2:00 that morning that young gay patrons started fighting back against police raiding a New York City bar called the Stonewall Inn. Police accused the bar of selling liquor without a license but gays charged the raid was harassment." He went on to tout the progress made since the riot: "By the 25th anniversary of Stonewall in 1994, things had changed so much that New York City was hosting the gay games...In the years since then, six states have legalized same-sex marriage. Legislation is pending that would make New York the seventh."
Mason concluded the brief story by describing the ongoing struggle: "Not that gay rights groups believe their job is done. Among other goals, they're still fighting to overturn the military's ban on openly gay service members. Today, as in years past, gay pride parades will be held in New York and many other cities across the land. Marking the distance the campaign has already traveled from that turbulent night outside the Stonewall Inn."
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June 30, 2009 - 13:52 ET by Gothampc""...it was around 2:00 that morning that young gay patrons started fighting back against police raiding a New York City bar called the Stonewall Inn. Police accused the bar of selling liquor without a license but gays charged the raid was harassment."
Gay historians have as many different versions of what happened as there are colors in the gay flag.
There is proof that is wasn't just gays but more likely young radicals who would do anything to stop the "Establishment" which the police represented.
The mafia controlled these bars and possibly the police raided because they hadn't gotten their payoff. Or there is a possibility that this was a "show" raid designed to show people that the police were clamping down on the mafia. (Greenwich Village had a large Italian population.)
There are many theories that the Stonewall Inn raid had nothing to do with gay rights, that they were only caught in the middle.
...and still no
June 30, 2009 - 14:00 ET by TruthMonger...and still no lobbying for peds, incest, prostitution, beastiality...how very far we have yet to go! press on for perverts everywhere!
Palin/Prejean 2012
you're comparing a gay
June 30, 2009 - 14:10 ET by USAnumber1you're comparing a gay person to people who sleep and molest children?
wow, you are sick!
So you wish to say that homosexuality is not a depraved act and
June 30, 2009 - 15:22 ET by pahubernot against nature?
alls i was sayin is
June 30, 2009 - 18:37 ET by TruthMongeralls i was sayin is we "progressives" could really use some will and grace type sitcoms to help free up some of these other depraved past times - sheesh!
Palin/Prejean 2012
Hi Truth, I noticed he never came back. I guess he was here for
June 30, 2009 - 19:22 ET by pahuberthe lame zinger.
It's a fair comparison
July 1, 2009 - 07:55 ET by CobraMan"you're comparing a gay person to people who sleep and molest children?"
It's a fair comparison as both are immoral acts.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court
It is not a 'fair'
July 1, 2009 - 09:56 ET by 24enakIt is not a 'fair' comparison because sleeping and molesting children is nonconcentural and against the law. Where as being gay is not against the law and is concentural.
Gays hate themselves
June 30, 2009 - 14:10 ET by sevena gay male has 7-10 years less life expectancy than a make cigarette smoker.
If their deal is so great, why does this happen?Why are we dealing with smoking and not homosexuality?
and the average Asian man
June 30, 2009 - 14:22 ET by USAnumber1and the average Asian man life expectancty is 6 years longer than average White man...........what's your point.
USAnumber1, what's YOUR
June 30, 2009 - 16:44 ET by bretzysdudeUSAnumber1, what's YOUR point? Troll.
I'd be willing to bet that
June 30, 2009 - 16:25 ET by Radical1979I'd be willing to bet that one of the reasons for the lower life expectancy has to do with the promiscuity of the gay lifestyle. Promiscuity leads to the spread of many diseases regardless weather it's homo or hetero sexual. Studies show gay men to have many more partners than straight men, thus more diseases, shorter life span.
They can't stand marriage
June 30, 2009 - 18:00 ET by seven28% of gays have over 1,000 sex partners in their lifetime. That is a 10-20 year shorter lifetime. Perversion is hard to stop. We are finding nearly all gays that live where they can and do get legally married, have sex outside of their "marriage" within the first year. Gays do not want marriage or fidelity. At most they want to have the appearance of being like normal people.
Gays have many more times the number of domestic violence attacks. This is how we know their love is eros and not genuine. If Frank Lombard from duke was happily married, why would he need to molest a little boy? Marriages for gays is putting on a face.
Yay for violence! Yay for
June 30, 2009 - 14:12 ET by mattmYay for violence! Yay for lawlessness! Yay for mayhem!
Yay for hit and run...
June 30, 2009 - 14:13 ET by Clear thinkerYay for hit and run... Liberal Hate Filled Low-Lifes
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I wonder if this would have
June 30, 2009 - 16:42 ET by mattmI wonder if this would have been covered as sparsely if the victim had been an NYT distorter or an MSNBC telereader....somehow I doubt it.
I'm Confused
June 30, 2009 - 14:39 ET by DoktorFranken''A New Day for Human Rights''
I thought that Gays already have the same rights as I do. They even have more protection than I, a white male, have when it comes to ''crimes'' against them and their description (regular or 'hate').
I have nothing against Gays or Lesbians except for when they intrude on me and my rights. Plus, whenever there is violence involved (think Castro District in SF, CA) they lose all of their equitableness of their position - if they ever had it in the first place.
They go beyond and over the line of ''live and let live''.
They do have the same rights.
June 30, 2009 - 14:46 ET by sevenI have never seen a gay male shake his fist and demand a right to have a uterus and get lucky. No one can make a law that will have him grow one complete with ligaments tubes etc.
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June 30, 2009 - 16:16 ET by DoktorFrankenFirst - Are you the grown up actor who played Seven on ''Married With Children''?
As far as 'the same rights' I meant that gay men have the right to marry women and lesbians have the right to marry men. Their ''same-sex'' thingy is not marriage. There's a little precedent involved. It's thousands of years of cultural history.
'there's a little precedent
June 30, 2009 - 17:01 ET by 24enak'there's a little precedent involved. It's thousands of years of cultural history.' So was slavery, it had thousands of years of cultural history. Human sacrifice had thousands of years of cultural history in South America.
Wow!
June 30, 2009 - 17:06 ET by DoktorFrankenMarriage is equivalent to slavery. What an idiot you must seem to be when you congregate with normal people.
Like now.
I wasn't equating marriage
June 30, 2009 - 23:06 ET by 24enakI wasn't equating marriage to slavery. I was saying your arguement that there was thousands of years of cultural precedent didn't hold water.
Actually, it does.
July 1, 2009 - 08:17 ET by CobraMan"I was saying your arguement that there was thousands of years of cultural precedent didn't hold water."
Actually, it does. Cultural precedent is a valid argument when discussing the continuation to positive human endeavors such as traditional Marriage.
There's thousands of years of cultural history with the noble endeavor of Charity. Shall we stop being charitable simply because there's also thousands of years of cultural history in child prostitution? Or is that history a valid argument when discussing the continuation of Charity as a desirable endeavor?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court
non sequitur
July 1, 2009 - 08:11 ET by CobraManProstitution also has thousands of years of cultural history, as well as child marriages, torture as a means of punishment, and other nasty little aspects of human interactivity and proclivity.
On the flip side, there the thousands of years of cultural history in such noble endeavors as Health Care (caring for those who are unable to care for themselves), Charity (providing for those who can not provide for themselves), and even Moral Instruction (teaching people the difference between Right and Wrong, helpful and harmful activities)
What's my point? That for every instance of negative cultural history, there's also an instance of positive cultural history. You can't argue against the positive aspects of such cultural history as the definition of Marriage with an example of some other unrelated negative aspect such as slavery. That's a non sequitur as the two are totally unrelated.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court
Oh, and BTW
June 30, 2009 - 16:42 ET by DoktorFrankenYour post gave me a visual of Mrs. Garrison from South Park (the ex-Mr. Garrision). Especially the episode about the Les Bos bar where all the lesbians make a stand (a la '300') against the new Persian owners.
And I was just going to fix myself a sandwich. * Sigh *
Happy 40th Anniversary - cupcakes and condoms are on us!
June 30, 2009 - 16:02 ET by SickofLibsI wouldn't hold my breath waiting on Obama to fulfill any promises, though.
He's not real big on that, unless the gays can miraculously turn themselves into a huge voting block over the next few years.
The GLBTNTSQOS Community
June 30, 2009 - 16:08 ET by eaglewingz08The GLBTNTSQOS Community (sic) won't feel they've won until the government will make it a hate crime for anyone to read from the Bible about homosexuality, and until one could marry any number spouses of any ages (to limit the number, age or genders of one's marriage partners would be ageist, sexist homophobic and christianist).
However, I wouldn't hold my breath about Obama taking up the rainbow flag before his sixth (ugh) year in office (of his ten year term, wink).
Gays = just another Dem sucker subcategory
June 30, 2009 - 16:21 ET by SickofLibsYou know, for allegedly being so sophisticated and superior, the gays are turning out to be just another dumbass democrat constituency – suckers just like the Jewish voters who would NEVER vote anything but Democrat even if Obama locked them up in detention camps or nuked Israel off the map.
40 years ago
June 30, 2009 - 18:15 ET by ricklail1969 was a big year for me. I had graduated HS and was now in the Army. I don't recall this incident but all I was trying to do was survive boot camp.
I wonder if the upcoming 40th of Chappaquick will be mentioned with the same fanfare as this.
Semper suprene nitens
Re Chappaquidick
June 30, 2009 - 20:35 ET by slickwillie2001Perhaps some conservatives should schedule a get-together on the bridge. Have a quiet memorial for Maryjo, pour a fifth of scotch into Poucha Pond for Teddie.