Stonewall 1969: ‘Turning point of rage’

http://www.workers.org/2006/us/lavender-red-65/

. . . a masculine lesbian wearing “fancy, go-to-bar drag for a butch dyke.” . . .

Stonewall employee Harry Beard said that the lesbian had struggled with police inside the bar. She was handcuffed behind her back and arrested for violation of a New York edict that required each person to be wearing three pieces of “gender appropriate” clothing. Beard related that when she protested the rough treatment, a cop hit her in the head with a nightstick.