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Part Two: Stonewall: The Criminal Queers Who Birthed a Movement

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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San Francisco 1966 - The Parrot Is on Parrot

The next riot is in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, which apparently gets his name from basically being the district where cops can get bought off through like old timey slang. "I could fight off an army in a bathrobe," Josie says about one of the fights she was involved in. The charges against those defending themselves are dropped immediately.

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