Stonewall was a riot in a bar after they could no longer stand repression by cops..!
Wrong-o.
It wasn’t a bar. It was a BOTTLE CLUB:
For a bar u gotta have running water, and multiple exits, and a bigger bathroom, and all kinds of stuff. For a bottle club? You need almost none of that, and Stonewall was a mobbed-up outfit that wanted to keep costs low.
Stonewall made money by selling drinks, right?
Yeah, but when the mob had to deal with a closeted customer who chronically created problems at Stonewall, they’d blackmail him.
“All your friends and biz associates WILL KNOW, faggot..!”
This treatment would get rid of the customer, but not before monetizing the problem a little. Or a lot.
All the blackmailed people submitted peacefully, right?
No, one got really violent about it, and it touched off a bigger fight, a riot, more or less, and that required intervention by the cops.
Stonewall is a total lie.