But everyone knew that Greenwich Village was where we hung out. Our life was kind of isolated and secret. And I think these people are a fit subject for a mental health program. They’re advocating that we tolerate the problem.

And these people are really advocating that we don’t solve the problem. And if we discover homosexuals in our department, we discharge them. The policy of the department is that we do not employ homosexuals knowingly. Well, I understand that we’re being picketed by a group of homosexuals. We were thrown into a general category of people who needed to be cleaned up out of New York City. And some therapists said, well, if you get married, it’ll go away. We were the lowest of the scum of the Earth at that time. Well, the 1960s, it was a city sport to attack gay people. It was a place where the community felt comfortable and safe, because we were all among ourselves. In Greenwich Village, here in New York City, Christopher Park and Sheridan Square, and the area around the Stonewall Inn, is a place where the LGBT community gathered to celebrate our victories, to mourn our losses.

communities have gathered there to express their joy, their anger, their pain and their power. Transcript Stonewall: The Making of a Monument Ever since the 1969 riots on the streets outside New York City’s Stonewall Inn, L.G.B.T.Q.