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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Owners and managers of bars that were caught serving LGBTQ customers could have their liquor license revoked and their businesses closed.
Bars that survived the purge had to operate under constant fear of being raided or shut down.
Anti-cruising practices were also put into effect.
Bars and restaurants had to install signs that read, Patrons must face the bar while drinking.
The reasoning went that if gay men were facing straight ahead while sitting at the bar, they wouldn't be able to turn around and flirt with other men passing by.
As head of the Mattachine Society in New York, Dick Leisch had pushed back against these kind of rules.
He and other advocates had campaigned successfully to get Mayor John Lindsay to promise to end one of the most aggressive and dangerous abuses known as entrapment.
Next on Leisch's list were the problems facing owners of gay-friendly bars and their customers.
But it wasn't easy for Laish and Mattachine to figure out how and where to even start their fight against discrimination.
New York state liquor laws were complex and daunting.
After hiring a lawyer to dig through the legal code, Mattachine discovered that it wasn't technically illegal for LGBTQ people to gather in bars.
There was no law that flatly denied them service.
But a bar could be shut down if its clientele became disorderly.
That one word, disorderly, used in a broad and vague context, held up the entirety of the state's ability to discriminate.
And for Leisch and his allies, it finally provided a focus for their strategy.
Imagine it's April 20th, 1966, around three o'clock in the afternoon inside a Greenwich Village bar called Julius's.
It's no longer lunch, not yet happy hour.
You're a member of the New York Mattachine Society.
Dressed in a blazer and tie, you and your colleagues could be any other trio of businessmen walking in for a drink.
But you're actually embarking on an unusual kind of protest to draw attention to discrimination against the gay community by the New York State Liquor Authority.
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