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Rewind: Stonewall 50: Episode 1: Prelude to a Riot

Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

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Gay Life in the Village

One morning last week a transit authority policeman just happened to be passing by them the infamous docks at the foot of christopher street, on his way home. There he observed three men leading the back of ta truck. The trucks were another fixture of gay life in the village,. A place where men went to have sex in the back of freight trucks arked overnight underneath the elevated west side highway that ran past the mostly abandoned shipping piers ond. When the cop went to question the three men what they were doing in theback of the truck, and as the story goes in the times, a one of these three men told a a screw driver on the cop pulled a gun and killed the

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