Gay pride parade riot

We need to speak up for our less privileged peers, and allow room to be corrected if we speak out of turn or speak incorrectly. In North Macedonia, hundreds of people marched through the capital, Skopje, as the Balkan country hosted its second-ever Pride parade. The Cumhuriyet newspaper said at least 25 people were detained. The crime syndicate saw profit in catering to shunned gay clientele, and by the mids, the Genovese crime family controlled most Greenwich Village gay bars. Alec Baldwin exclusive: 'The trigger wasn't pulled. Back to top. Fed up with constant police harassment and social discrimination, angry patrons and neighborhood residents hung around outside of the bar rather than disperse, becoming increasingly agitated as the events unfolded and people were aggressively manhandled.

Although the police forcefully pushed or kicked some patrons out of the bar, some customers released by the police performed for the crowd by posing and saluting the police in an exaggerated fashion. A History of Gay Rights in America. The US Postal Service refused to mail its August issue, which concerned homosexual people in heterosexual marriages, on the grounds that the material was obscene despite it being covered in brown paper wrapping. They outlawed the wearing of opposite gender clothes and universities expelled instructors suspected of being homosexual.