Status Updates From Stonewall

I’m not surprised that it took another minority, a black commissioner to help the LGBTQ community. Even when it’s something as “small” as not being served drinks at a bar for being homosexual. It puts into perspective that people who aren’t would know that even at a micro scale, homosexuals are discriminated against because of their sex.

It’s interesting how a turning point happened and started a change in conversation about homosexuality through the accumulation of different activism movements since socially, different people were fighting for the same rights as humans. Anti-war, pro-black, pro-gay as well as the assassination of JFK. Historically, it would bring people together.

I knew homophobia was rampant but I wasn’t expecting it being so extreme as racism when it came to the police arresting gay people for harmless things like being at the beach in a bathing suit without a towel. Moreover, I can understand Craig’s desire of wanting Mattachine to be political but at the same time homophobia was so bad that it’s understandable that the other members were too scared to follow him.