
Part Two: Stonewall: The Criminal Queers Who Birthed a Movement
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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The Janice Society
In 1965, Janice Society. held a sit in just like straight up at a lunch counter in Philly where queer people and cross dressers were being refused service. Three teenagers, two boys and one girl just sat the fuck down and refused to leave and they were arrested. The president of the Janice Society, Clark Pollack, he's a gay Jewish man and we're talking more about him in a second. They published a magazine called Drum, which was a gay magazine that got his name just like the sources of all their names. It got his name from Walden by Thoreau: If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the
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