Lindsey Graham
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American History Tellers · FAN FAVORITE: Stonewall | Why Don't You Do Something? | 3 · 16 Sep 2026
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What we're doing here, Craig gestures at the bar, what we're doing here is academic.
There's no use arguing with Craig when he gets like this.
For now, you'll continue with Mattachine to protest in a safe, constructive, legal way.
The newspaper coverage generated by Dick Leisch and Mattachine's creative demonstration at Julius's, a tactic borrowed directly from the Black Civil Rights Movement, forced the state liquor authority into a corner.
In 1967, the year following the sip-in at Julius's, a New York court decided that the state liquor authority could not revoke a bar's license on the basis of serving LGBTQ customers.
It was a win for activists.
But it was another bar entirely that would become a flashpoint between the city and the LGBTQ community in Greenwich Village.
Since 1930, the Stonewall Inn, located at 53 Christopher Street, had been an Italian restaurant.
It was never an actual inn, just two doors and a pair of windows set into a brick facade that looked out into the street.
Begun as a speakeasy and called the Stonewall, the name itself was a coded literary reference to lesbian love.
As the decades passed, the two words were compressed into one, and the Stonewall Inn became a restaurant and bar with a hunting lodge decor.
It was a popular venue for weddings, banquets, and other civic and social events.
But after a fire, the restaurant was sold, and in 1966, four businessmen took over the property.
$3,500 was all it took for the Stonewall's new owners to make slight renovations on the inside and clear out the space for dancing.
To get around state liquor authority restrictions and to help legally protect themselves from raids, the new owners declared the Stonewall a private bottle service club.
Being a private club meant that, without a proper search warrant, even a police officer could be denied admission or thrown out.
Still, the Stonewall's proprietors covered up and reinforced the front windows with plywood and two-by-fours.
They also installed a set of steel doors behind the existing heavy wooden front doors in a safeguard against police if ever they decided to rush the place.
And when the Stonewall opened its doors for business in March 1967, it became very popular very fast.
Unlike many other bars serving gay clientele, the Stonewall was a large club on a main street, just across from Christopher Park and 7th Avenue, with a neon sign flashing.
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