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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By some estimates, the payouts amounted to as much as $1,200 a month, nearly four times the rent, but merely a drop in the bucket when compared to the club's profit.
For a long while, the Stonewall continued to make money off their LGBTQ clientele, and for the most part, neighborhood police kept their distance.
The precautions taken by the club's mafia owners for their own protection—the reinforced steel doors, the blackout windows, the doorman—discouraged the cops.
But they had the added benefit of protecting the bar's patrons and concealing them from the prying eyes of passersby.
In theory, Stonewall's customers were safer inside than at any of the other neighborhood bars.
But mob protection came with tradeoffs.
There was no fire escape or emergency exit, and no running water behind the bar.
Toilets often overflowed.
For Craig Rodwell, the sense of safety was merely a façade.
He later told an interviewer, Bars have always been our only place, our haven in a sense.
I was always furious that the mob controlled so much of our social life.
They liked our money, hated our guts.
There was collusion between the cops and the mob, and we were caught in the middle all the time.
The need for places where the LGBTQ community could safely gather meant that any gay club that managed to stay open long enough would draw a crowd.
Stonewall's crowd was bigger than most.
Its patrons just had to settle for dirty and dangerous conditions because there was simply no other alternative.
It was around this time that the New York Mattachine Society discovered something troubling.
They were getting phone calls from men who had fallen victim to what they described as an extortion ring operated by Stonewall's management.
Stonewall's customers were being shaken down, tracked and followed to their homes, visited by mob enforcers pretending to be police.
The enforcers would then threaten to out the victims publicly, forcing them to pay as much money as they could, often thousands of dollars, to keep their sexual orientation a secret.
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