find was greenwich village. >> the most important decision i ever made in my life was to move to greenwich village, the gay world. >> i found pulp novels. and these novels said, there are lesbian bars in the village where these women met each other, you should find these evil bars, and then you too could meet a sexy woman. >> it was the village, it was magic to the whole village. there were all these places and all these people. it was that kind of excitement. and we were all or mostly gay. >> but there remained a web of laws and harsh enforcement that kept gays and lesbians oppressed and criminalized. >> it was very tightly policed. it was almost like we were some kind of like animals that had to be given some kind of recreation and a little bit of area, but shouldn't spread out too much. >> you couldn't really hold hands, right? if i had makeup on my face, the cops would arrest you for female