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Just let's see if they can. Doric Wilson:There was joy because the cops weren't winning. The overwhelming number of medical authorities said that homosexuality was a mental defect, maybe even a form of psychopathy. hide caption. John O'Brien:There was one street called Christopher Street, where actually I could sit and talk to other gay people beyond just having sex. Read a July 6, 1969excerpt fromTheNew York Daily News. There were occasions where you did see people get night-sticked, or disappear into a group of police and, you know, everybody knew that was not going to have a good end. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:Well, we did use the small hoses on the fire extinguishers. Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community is a 1984 American documentary film about the LGBT community prior to the 1969 Stonewall riots. And it was those loudest people, the most vulnerable, the most likely to be arrested, were the ones that were doing the real fighting. In 1969 it was common for police officers to rough up a gay bar and ask for payoffs. And I knew that I was lesbian. Virginia Apuzzo:It was free but not quite free enough for us. Martha Shelley:When I was growing up in the '50s, I was supposed to get married to some guy, produce, you know, the usual 2.3 children, and I could look at a guy and say, "Well, objectively he's good looking," but I didn't feel anything, just didn't make any sense to me. If you came to a place like New York, you at least had the opportunity of connecting with people, and finding people who didn't care that you were gay. Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution Doric Wilson:In those days, the idea of walking in daylight, with a sign saying, "I'm a faggot," was horren--, nobody, nobody was ready to do that. And the first gay power demonstration to my knowledge was against my story inThe Village Voiceon Wednesday. Danny Garvin More than a half-century after its release, " The Queen " serves as a powerful time capsule of queer life as it existed before the 1969 Stonewall uprising. As president of the Mattachine Society in New York, I tried to negotiate with the police and the mayor. The scenes were photographed with telescopic lenses. Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:A rather tough lesbian was busted in the bar and when she came out of the bar she was fighting the cops and trying to get away. Jerry Hoose:The bar itself was a toilet. Review: 'Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community' And I found them in the movie theatres, sitting there, next to them. Doric Wilson New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. Doric Wilson:Somebody that I knew that was older than me, his family had him sent off where they go up and damage the frontal part of the brain. Over a short period of time, he will be unable to get sexually aroused to the pictures, and hopefully, he will be unable to get sexually aroused inside, in other settings as well. William Eskridge, Professor of Law:Gay people who were sentenced to medical institutions because they were found to be sexual psychopaths, were subjected sometimes to sterilization, occasionally to castration, sometimes to medical procedures, such as lobotomies, which were felt by some doctors to cure homosexuality and other sexual diseases.