![]() What we know it was just one of those semi regular raids by NYPD on one of the gay bars. Historians really don't know what was special about that particular night. And it happened on a semi regular occurrence. The Mafia was able to occasionally keep the police from enforcing the anti-gay law on serving homosexual people alcoholic beverages, but every once in a while just to keep up appearances, the New York Police Department would raid one of these gay bars. So at the time in New York City in the '60s it was actually illegal for bars to serve alcoholic beverages to people who were thought to be homosexual or were openly homosexual, and so what you had was this underground network of bars largely run by the mafia who took the risk of serving gay and transgender patrons in a very corrupt system. ![]() Rumsey: What actually happened in the Stonewall riots and what sparked it?Ĭomer: Yeah. Matt Comer, communications director for Charlotte Pride joined WFAE All Things Considered host Mark Rumsey. The local LGBTQ advocacy group Charlotte Pride is organizing Stonewall 50: Charlotte. ![]() Matt Comer, communications director for Charlotte Pride.
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