"The Stonewall Bar Did Not Allow Non-White Patrons or Drag Queens Into It, So They Couldn't Have Bee

[queerbychoice]

*ahem* Technically speaking, same-gender sex itself wasn't allowed anywhere in the U.S. at that time, so the Stonewall Bar couldn't very well have officially announced in its charter that anything "of a homosexual nature" was allowed to take place there at all. So, homosexuals couldn't have been there! Attention, everyone:

THE STONEWALL RIOT WAS CARRIED OUT BY STRAIGHTS!
No Queers Showed Up Until the Next Day When They Wandered in to Claim All the Credit!
Revisionist Stonewal History gets more disturbing every day.

Comments

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

It's not an article, it's an extract from a book. That probably explains the structure. I think he writes well and makes some good points - I particularly liked: Let the young ones be queer the way they want to be queer, as long as they are queer, as long as they find among themselves each other to love. I've given up the dream of the Queer Nation. Race, class, gender, ideologies, and values will always divide us. It is ludicrous to think that since we share a common passion, we should all want the same things out of this life. We are each other's angels, and we are each other's demons.

[jwitchbaby.livejournal.com]

true, it doesn't read well because it's an excerpt.

but that particular quote was one i nearly cited as being irritating when i posted that comment. he has such a simplistic analysis. "Race, class, gender, ideologies, and values" should not "always divide us." Our "common passion" should not be merely to fuck same-sex folks, but to have a liberation that transcends all of these categories.

grr.