Monday, June 28, 2010 7:15pm
I have been wondering what I would write today for the entire month now. Today, is arguably the most iconic moment in the gay rights movement as we know it, but unfortunately, not people remember it.
Today is a day that should stand in its own importance. It is the shot that heard 'round the world, the day we stood up and said "No More!"; it is the 4th of July and Easter and Memorial Day all rolled into one. Today should be a day that lives in infamy for the opposition and the day that we took back a little corner of the world for us.
41 years ago today, our brothers and sisters refused to be victims as they had often been before. They stood up to the then oppressive NYPD and would not be taken into custody. They would no longer endure humiliation, taunting, beatings, and in some extreme cases rape. Instead, they turned the tables on the very people, who swore to protect and serve them; they held their oppressors captive in the bar that was supposed their safe haven.
I have been wondering what I would write today for the entire month now. Today, is arguably the most iconic moment in the gay rights movement as we know it, but unfortunately, not people remember it.
Today is a day that should stand in its own importance. It is the shot that heard 'round the world, the day we stood up and said "No More!"; it is the 4th of July and Easter and Memorial Day all rolled into one. Today should be a day that lives in infamy for the opposition and the day that we took back a little corner of the world for us.
41 years ago today, our brothers and sisters refused to be victims as they had often been before. They stood up to the then oppressive NYPD and would not be taken into custody. They would no longer endure humiliation, taunting, beatings, and in some extreme cases rape. Instead, they turned the tables on the very people, who swore to protect and serve them; they held their oppressors captive in the bar that was supposed their safe haven.
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