ivan’s Reviews > Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront > Status Update
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"The queer ruin persists, as [Henry] Miller had noted a quarter century earlier, 'despite all the efforts to clean it up!' ... As New York continued to reel from its industrial and economic decline, its heteronormative fabric also began to fray at the edges."
— Jan 01, 2024 02:40PM
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In the 1950-60s, because of the homophobia of the NY State Liquor Authority, who would shut down gay bars as "disreputable," places like Stonewall were run by the Mafia, who used them to avoid paying taxes. "The city raised little objection ... when gangsters began to underwrite a new network of clandestine and unpretentious gay bars." In 1966 the mob "put up $3,500 to reopen the Stonewall [Inn] as a gay club."
— Dec 19, 2023 11:42PM
