Talk:Gay Liberation
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[edit] I did not vandalize the page when I "struck" through a section!
The paragraph that I deleted is utterly false. There was never a rebellion at Valle Crucis!!! Show me even a semblance of evidence for this event and I will apologize. Brad1002 06:49, 21 December 2006 (UTC)Brad
- Well, the appropriate way to do that would have probably been to add a tag for a citation and discussing it on the talk page first. At the very least, be sure to mention on the talk page why you did it and give a bit of an account of why you think it's false. I think your edit was in good faith though. You might want to see Wikipedia:help for some useful info on contributing. I am not seeing any information on this online other than on wikipedia and it's mirrors either though. I'm going to remove it and if anyone can find a citation (which I doubt), we'll put it back in. Oh, and btw, never comment in the article itself, do that here on the talk page. Ungovernable ForceGot something to say? 07:13, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] And SINCE 1971??????
Did the Gay liberation end in 1971 or what?
[edit] 1969
This section contained the following remark: "In June of 1969, when a group of patrons of the Stonewall Inn (led by black and Hispanic transpeople)..." The parenthetical qualification is historically incorrect, and I have removed it. David Carter's excellently researched book on these events cites the eyewitness reports of both black and white sources who state clearly that while the Stonewall Inn had a racially mixed clientele, it was mostly white, with Latinos and blacks being a smaller percentage of the crowd. As a patron of the Stonewall I can verify that this was absolutely the case. Photos of the rioting crowds show racially mixed groups, but blacks are a minority. As noted in Carter's book, Duberman's earlier and less reliable book, and elsewhere, neither people in drag nor transsexuals were ever more than the tiniest fraction of the crowd. The Stonewall Inn was an illegal premises (it had no NY State liquor license) and it was located on a well-traveled street in the heart of Greenwich Village, having a steady patronage of drag queens would have brought an unwanted and dangerous degree of neighborhood attention.Jfpessoa 16:31, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Where are the sources of information in this article?
What it says needs to be verified. Michael Glass (talk) 00:36, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
