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Originally published Aug. 14, 2006, and reposted June 22, 2019, this column was part of Leslie Feinberg’s series of articles on the connections between LGBTQ2S+ and socialist history. The 120-part series “Lavender & Red,” which appeared in Workers World from 2004 to 2008, is available for free download at workers.org/book/lavender-red/.…
So i launch forward and kicked him in the rear with all my force and fled into the crowd. >> and somebody picked up a garbage can, put that through the window. and then somebody started a fire. >> some group of people had managed to pull up a parking meter and were using it as a battering ram on the front door. >> people were living in the moment and just responding to this adrenaline surge. >> we were not thinking rationally, normally. it was a mob mentality. >> the officers trapped in the bar were armed, and inspector pine would later say he feared there would be a bloodbath. >> seymour pine...
A whole avalanche of gay anger that was like nothing that had ever been witnessed before. >> this one policeman was bent over hitting somebody in the doorway. so i launch forward and kicked him in the rear with all my force and fled into the crowd. >> and somebody picked up a garbage can, put that through the window. and then somebody started a fire. >> some group of people had managed to pull up a parking meter and were using it as a battering ram on the front door. >> people were living in the moment and just responding to this adrenaline surge. >> we were not thinking rationally, normally. ...