Fifty years after the Stonewall uprising that launched the LGBTQ civil rights movement into the national spotlight, Christopher Street has a different atmosphere.
Once inside Stonewall, patrons have a view out into the street next to where the bar's bouncer checks IDs.Inside the Stonewall Inn, patrons are stopped at the door by a bouncer. There is no cover charge,, when patrons paid $1 on weekdays and $3 on weekends to get into Stonewall, but visitors must be 21 to enter.
Mike"Flava," a 44-year-old who works at Stonewall as a bouncer, said he personally is not a part of the LGBTQ community but has had gay family members. The father of two said he"knew people needed protection" in LGBTQ spaces after a cousin who was too afraid to come out committed suicide last year. "If anyone asks who threw the first brick, a black transgender woman threw it first," Mike said, alluding to the
2015 film"Stonewall" that portrayed a white gay male as the inciting figure in the uprising."People have lots of different stories about it, but it wasn't a white guy."
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