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anti-crossdressing laws in the United States allowed police to brutalize those who deviated from legally codified norms of dress, resulting in the 1969 Stonewall Riots.
Six hundred protestors were arrested, the largest mass arrest in Washington since the Vietnam War protests.42
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Lieutenant Dan Choi, who was discharged from the army in 2009 because he “told,” removes a Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell tape from his lips.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
In December, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a quiet, dignified black seamstress, Rosa Parks, refused to move to the back of a bus to make room for a white passenger, and was arrested for violating the Alabama bus segregation laws. A meeting in the church of Mrs. Parks’ pastor, a twenty-six-year-old black preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. who, as
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
After the funeral, while I was downtown desperately celebrating my birthday, a Negro soldier, in the lobby of the Hotel Braddock, got into a fight with a white policeman over a Negro girl. Negro girls, white policemen, in or out of uniform, and Negro males—in or out of uniform—were part of the furniture of the lobby of the Hotel Braddock and this
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
In a startling scene that underscores the absurdity of white supremacist practices, the police officer charged the driver for driving a bus that was “too yellow.” The officer’s “reasoning” was that the bus was deceptive—too closely resembling a school bus.