Posted on 05/15/2016 9:03:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The area surrounding the Stonewall Inn is poised to become the first national monument dedicated to gay rights, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the property will always be a bar.
There’s actually nothing in the national monument designation or even the city’s landmark law to prevent New York’s most famous gay bar from someday becoming a coffee shop, a frozen yogurt joint or anything else. […]
The space was occupied for years by other businesses, including a bagel shop and a Chinese restaurant, before it reopened as a bar in the 1990s. In Stonewall’s current incarnation, under new owners since 2006, half the original space occupied by the bar is now a nail salon.
Co-owner Stacy Lentz said she and her partners bought the bar “to preserve history and make sure it wasn’t made into a Starbucks.” She said she is thrilled by the national monument discussions. …
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A few ideas are in order. Chick-fil-A would be a great starting point. Maybe a store-front Mosque?
I guess we’ll soon be turning Target ladies rooms into National Monuments for the transvestite crowd.
Is there enough sanitizer to make one comfortable about eating anything cooked at this establishment?
I thought this was going to be about another flap about Confederate monuments. Ah innocence.
BURN. IT. TO. THE. GROUND.
Then dig 49 feet down and have the rock, dirt, ash and other debris dumped into the centre of the Atlantic.
Build a museum of disease on the site, with GRID (Gay Related Immune Disorder, renamed “AIDS” when the vectors objected) as the bottom floor.
Tell the TRUTH!
Architecturally, it’s just another old NYC tenement over a store.
So what’s up? Are we supposed to add Stonewall to our itinerary of tourist attractions to see in New York City??
Are we homophobic if we don’t go there??
All this for a Mafia-run bar that got busted.
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