The film classic starring Al Pacino, about a small-time criminal who robs a bank to pay for his lover’s sex change operation, left out the impact that prostitute Elizabeth Eden’s struggle had on the LGBTQ+ community
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On Aug. 22, 1972, John Stanley Wojtowicz, Salvatore Naturile and Robert Westenberg attempted to rob a branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend. What ensued would go on to inspire a film and become the stuff of legends.