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It’s hard for most of us to imagine what it was like being gay in the early 70’s when getting caught with another dude could land you in jail and raids on bars were frequent. But now a growing group of young guys are getting a taste of Stonewall-era police brutality. The latest of 4 gay bar raids just took place in Atlanta.
A bunch of our friends were present for the raid. There was no criminal activity of any sort going on, no drugs were found, yet 60 men were bound and had to lay face down for more than an hour as they were illegally searched. Now try imagining that happening in a straight bar.
Here is Mike Alvear’s account on Huffington Post. Now what is even scarier is that this is the 4th in a series of raids across the country, one of which occurred right on the anniversary of Stonewall!
Something about Prop 8 has rattled the bones of the homophobic, and even though we didn’t win, it seems as though people are more afraid than ever about gay rights. All the more reason that we need to get out of our gay cyber closets and start wearing our stripes.
