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

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The Daughters of Bilitus

Tommy Vasu was a butch lesbian gangster who moved to San Francisco in the 40s from the Midwest. She wore double-breasted suits with fedoras and drove a Cadillac convertible. The sex workers, drug dealers and drug users are the people who are all left out of this story. They're not good for the image.

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