Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190628:19:43:00
>> remind everyone. take us back to 50 years ago, when it was against the law to be in a bar, in a public space as a same sex couple, not even kissing, touching one another. tell me about that time. >> well, it was a very claustrophobic time. it's a time where you were always worried about your own personal safety. it wasn't just what was illegal, we were also routinely beaten up, i mean, straight people would generally guys would go into the village with the express purpose of beating people up. queer bashing is what we called it. >> you were beat up? >> i've been beat up multiple times in my...