i was standing in the back near the dance floor. lights flickered on, then they came on full force. i looked over at someone and said, what s happening? and they said, very casually, it s a raid. i had never been in a raid before so i was a little nervous. police barged in, just started pushing people around. and if anybody looked like they were successful, they went up to them and said, take out your wallet, and they took the money. it was right in front of everybody s faces and they didn t care because that s the way you got to treat gay men and lesbian women in those days you treated them like trash. so they carded me, i went out and i stood out about right over there. out here, somewhere between 15 and 100 police tried to disperse us. out here, somewhere between 50 and 100 police tried to disperse us. we would not disperse. it was the first time gay people said to police, no, this is our neighbourhood,