Season 1: Episode 1: Sylvia Rivera — Part 1
Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive
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The Pay Off
The police would pay a lock to freakin' door, and as soon as they left, the mafia was there. The nickels, the dimes, the pennies, and the quarters started flying. When you're obvious back then, there was nothing to hold you back. There was always the effeminate male or the butch woman. We had to live with it until at that time.
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