The Fucking Venn Diagram

In May 1959, some queer folks were hanging out at a 24-hour donut shop called Cooper Donuts on Skid Row. This got Clark Pollack arrested and sent to prison as did him running a peep show. August 5th, 1961 in Milwaukee, they show up at a dare at an illegal gay bar called Black Knight. The four Navy assholes, they refused to show ID to the bouncer. And so they start throwing coffee and donuts and trash at the cops. They drive the cops off with no one getting arrested. It's usually presented as the first gay riot in the US. But while organizations were more like trying to be respectable, the street queers