28 Quotes About Stonewall

GLBT leaders like to criticize young gays for not taking the movement seriously, but don’t listen to them. Just remember that at Stonewall we were defending our right to have fun, to meet each other, and to have sex.

When people are feeling fabulous, they don’t want to take any crap from anybody, particularly the cops.

I was with a group of queens, and we started walking up Christopher Street going, “Gay power! Gay power! Gay power!” We walked all the way to Eighth Avenue, and then we all looked at each other and said, “What do we do now?” So we turned round and walked all the way back down Christopher Street, still yelling, “Gay power!

The queens took the lead in the Stonewall Riots. They walked around in semi-drag with teased hair and false eyelashes on and they didn’t give a shit what anybody thought about them. What did they have to lose? Absolutely fucking nothing.

Few bars in New York, even gay bars, permitted same-sex dancing.

Men danced with men, often for the first time in their lives.

In that bar, we were going to smash that rainbow.

Then there was the raid, the whimper heard round the world, the fall of our gay Bastille.

I guess not everyone gets their Stonewall.