Name: The Stonewall You Know Is a Myth. And That’s O.K. | NYT Celebrating Pride
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“Some say it was Stormé DeLarverie.”

It’s a question that calls attention to overlooked

“Jason Mraz threw the first brick at Stonewall?

“Judy Garland threw the first brick.”

It’s become an inside joke about queer icons

mounted a resistance on the street outside,

I still didn’t know the answer to this question:

What I did know is that I had heard this story over

at a beloved gay bar called the Stonewall Inn.

The Stonewall Riot began when a drag queen,

The riot culminated in a Rockettes-style kick line

It’s a beautiful story, but it’s not exactly true.

at Stonewall in 1969, some historians who

had spent years studying L.G.B.T. history

and some contemporary queer writers to ask them,

what’s wrong with this account of Stonewall?

They helped me break it down, bit by bit.

“Before Stonewall, we had the Daughters of Bilitis.

“There was the sip-in at Julius’s.”

“And the movement in the world dates back to 1897

in Berlin, with the founding of Magnus Hirschfeld’s

organization, which was the first gay rights group.”

So if gay rights didn’t begin at Stonewall,

“They planned a march on the first anniversary

“And people forget that there were three pride parades.

Now here’s a fundamental question about Stonewall.

“What we did is we were cheering and dancing

“It was just a loud and bawdy fun group of guys

“It is called a riot, an uprising, a rebellion.”

Next, was the Stonewall bar as idyllic as some media

“A Mafia sleazy bar, and they watered down drinks.”

“There was a much better bar called the Cherry Lane.”

New York’s only gay bar nor an especially

Now, let’s talk about that drag queen who started it all.

“They said that she threw the first shot glass

“One of the persistent myths about Stonewall

is that Marsha threw the first cocktail glass.

that I did with Marsha, I didn’t get there until 2.”

“I was uptown and I didn’t get downtown

till about 2 o’clock — because when I got downtown,

the place was already on fire and it was a raid already.”

Marsha P. Johnson’s friend and fellow activist,

Sylvia Rivera, is also sometimes credited

“Sylvia Rivera is known for throwing the first bottle

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