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1 " We are following the blacks ... And we will follow, entering, perhaps, the same time as women. "
― Ann Bausum , Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
2 " People are beginning to realise,” the doorman of the Stonewall Inn observed a few days after the riot, “that no matter how ‘nelly’ or how ‘fem’ a homosexual is, you can only push them so far. "
3 " Change does come. "
4 " ...doctors advised intensive talk therapy, even electroshock treatment. Some gay men were castrated against their will, a procedure that removed their testicles and deadened the sex drive. Others were lobotomized, a medical practice that destroyed the connections between the frontal lobes and the thalamus of the brain, deadening just about all aspects of behavior. "
5 " Few bars in New York, even gay bars, permitted same-sex dancing. "
6 " Men danced with men, often for the first time in their lives. "
7 " Masquerading in the attire of the opposite sex was a criminal offense, except on Halloween. "
8 " When Clinton took office, members of that community still faced a host of legal and cultural barriers. Sodomy laws banned same-sex acts, even in the privacy of one’s bedroom, in more than half of the country’s states plus the nation’s capital. "
9 " And then there were the lesbians. "
10 " The spirit that emerged outside a Mafia-run bar in 1969 became the pulse of the gay community and inspired not just an annual parade but ways to express gay pride in individual lives.Stonewall happens every day. "
