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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.76,0:00:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We paid an awful lot of dues
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.20,0:00:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that the younger people of today
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.44,0:00:12.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can feel the freedom to walk along holding hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.91,0:00:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It did not start with Stonewall.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.78,0:00:18.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They used to have something in Harlem called Funmaker's Ball
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.99,0:00:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they would do that every Thanksgiving.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.20,0:00:24.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we would go to the Funmaker's Ball,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.71,0:00:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's really when the cops would be nasty
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.61,0:00:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cause the gay guys would come and dress up like women,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.42,0:00:31.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people would come in and enjoy themselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.39,0:00:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they'd stand outside and get the guys as they came out,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.18,0:00:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the women sometimes, and arrest them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.23,0:00:40.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we were younger, uh,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.73,0:00:43.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we did not have any role models,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.15,0:00:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uh, roles were defined,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.88,0:00:49.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people were into playing roles,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.83,0:00:54.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people dressed and acted out whatever role that they,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.68,0:00:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uh, found, that they were suited for.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.88,0:01:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, um, it was a law at that time
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.67,0:01:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you had to wear 3 pieces of female clothing,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.36,0:01:15.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or else they would uh take you to jail for impersonation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.59,0:01:22.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During this time of Stonewall, um, I was not living in New York at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.88,0:01:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, uh, so I missed that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.22,0:01:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I had been involved in many raids and harassment by the police
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.70,0:01:32.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my own community.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.02,0:01:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had a very viable, uh, black lesbian and gay community
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.68,0:01:41.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in different, not only in Harlem,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.05,0:01:47.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in Brooklyn, and in The Bronx, and
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.79,0:01:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uh, I can't say too much for Queens and Staten Island
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.96,0:01:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they're a foreign country.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.57,0:01:54.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what happened was,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.07,0:02:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that, um, the um bars downtown, uh, weren't making money.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.33,0:02:09.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And someone discovered that there was a lot of money being spent in Harlem.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.76,0:02:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in other black communities.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.64,0:02:16.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they systematically either burnt them down
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.09,0:02:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,closed them down
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.88,0:02:21.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or they started having a lot of problems with police,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.87,0:02:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,um, for different violations and stuff and things like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.24,0:02:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as bar after bar and club after club closed down
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.71,0:02:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clubs in The Village that years prior did not welcome the, uh, citizens of these neighbourhoods
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.80,0:02:47.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0} and South Bronx, and Jamaica and Harlem,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.76,0:02:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they let you in and took your money,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.64,0:02:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they still did not treat you any better.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.34,0:02:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until the current lesbian and gay community
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.07,0:03:02.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,acknowledges that there were contributions
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.23,0:03:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made by other lesbians and gay men of all colours,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.08,0:03:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the freedom of lesbians and gays prior to Stonewall,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.14,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there will always be some...[cuts off]