What is it like to be back here? it s sort of emotional. i think of the people who helped educate me or what we needed to do to create a real movement, to create real equality. what was it like that night? just like any other normal night. we were inside, we were having a great time. i was standing in the back near the dance floor. the lights flickered on, then they came on full force. i looked over at someone and said, what s happening? and they said, oh, very casually, it s a raid. i d never been in a raid before, so i was a little nervous. police barged in and just started pushing people around. and anybody looked like they were successful, they went up to them and said, take out your wallet. and they took the money. it was, you know, out and out graft right in front of everybody s face 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 this is where it s at. yes where it all happened. mark segal was 18 at the time and had arrived in the cityjust a few weeks earlier. ..seeing all the rainbow flags on it. what is it like to be back here? it s sort of emotional. i think of the people who helped educate me or what we needed to do to create a real movement, to create real equality. what was it like that night? just like any other normal night. we were inside, we were having a great time. i was standing in the back near the dance floor. the lights flickered on, then they came on full force. i looked over at someone and said, what s happening? and they said, oh, very casually, it s a raid. i d never been in a raid before, so i was a little nervous. police barged in and just started pushing people around. and anybody looked like they were successful, they went up to them and said, take out your wallet. and they took the money. it was, you know, out and out graft right in front of everybody s face
The birth of the modern gay rights movement. so this is where it s at. yes where it all happened. mark segal was 18 at the time and had arrived in the cityjust a few weeks earlier. ..seeing all the rainbow flags on it. what is it like to be back here? it s sort of emotional. i think of the people who helped educate me or what we needed to do to create a real movement, to create real equality. what was it like that night? just like any other normal night. we were inside, we were having a great time. i was standing in the back near the dance floor. the lights flickered on, then they came on full force. i looked over at someone and said, what s happening? and they said, oh, very casually, it s a raid. i d never been in a raid before, so i was a little nervous. police barged in and just started pushing people around. and anybody looked like they were successful, they went up to them and said, take out your wallet. and they took the money. it was, you know, out and out graft
On christopher street would mark the birth of the modern gay rights movement. so this is where it s at. yes where it all happened. mark segal was 18 at the time and had arrived in the cityjust a few weeks earlier. ..seeing all the rainbow flags on it. what is it like to be back here? it s sort of emotional. i think of the people who helped educate me or what we needed to do to create a real movement, to create real equality. what was it like that night? just like any other normal night. we were inside, we were having a great time. i was standing in the back near the dance floor. the lights flickered on, then they came on full force. i looked over at someone and said, what s happening? and they said, oh, very casually, it s a raid. i d never been in a raid before, so i was a little nervous. police barged in and just started pushing people around. and anybody looked like they were successful,
On christopher street would mark the birth of the modern gay rights movement. so this is where it s at. yes. where it all happened. mark segal was 18 at the time and had arrived in the city just a few weeks earlier. ..seeing all the rainbow flags on it. what is it like to be back here? it s sort of emotional. i think of the people who helped educate me or what we needed to do to create a real movement, to create real equality. what was it like that night? just like any other normal night. we were inside, we were having a great time. i was standing in the back near the dance floor. the lights flickered on, then they came on full force. i looked over at someone and said, what s happening? and they said, oh, very casually, it s a raid. i d never been in a raid before, so i was a little nervous. police barged in and just started pushing people around.