Lindsay Graham
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1,224 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3d ago
Lindsay Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was a call that leapt far beyond the tentative goals of gay rights groups of the past.
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Gay liberationists were committed to nothing less than a social revolution with no apologies.
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But despite the ambitious rhetoric, by March of nineteen seventy, little had actually changed on the ground.
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In the nine months since the Stonewall raid, New York police detective Seymour Pine still continued to target gay bars like the Zodiac and 17 Barrow Street.
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These raids culminated at a bar called the Snake Pit, an illegal after hours club.
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Around two hundred men were in the club when Pine and his officers arrived, and just like at Stonewall, the men did not disperse.
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Eager to avoid another explosive situation, Pine had one hundred sixty two men arrested and sent to the sixth precinct station house for identification checks.
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One of the men, Alfredo Diego Vignales, was a twenty three year old Argentinian with an expired visa.
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Waiting in line to be processed at the station house, Vignales grew more and more afraid that he would be deported as a homosexual, a potential death sentence in his home country.
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So Vinyalis broke out of the line and bolted up a set of stairs.
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As the police chased after him, Vinyalis grew frantic and tried to escape by jumping from a window to an adjoining roof.
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He missed, and was impaled on an iron fence below.
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The next day, the New York Daily News published a front page photograph of the grisly image.
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Coverage of the snake pit arrests and Vignalis's gruesome injury echoed throughout the LGBTQ community.
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But the headlines also generated widespread attention in the straight community as well.
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To build on the public attention, the Gay Liberation Front was able to help coordinate a demonstration in Christopher Park, and with less than twelve hours' notice, over five hundred people joined a protest march to the Sixth Street Station House, and then to the hospital where Vignalis had been taken.
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Most feared that Binyalis would die from his injuries, but he survived, only to be charged with resisting arrest even as he waited for doctors to finish removing a piece of fence from his body.
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Vignalis' injury became a symbol for the deadly stakes faced by all LGBTQ people.
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As a handwritten flyer distributed the day after the arrest put it, any way you look at it, that boy was pushed.
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We are all being pushed.
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