r/comics • u/BadFurDay Smuggies • Jul 28 '26

OC Please resist responsibly

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https://thebad.website/comic/please_resist_responsibly

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u/MaximumSyrup3099 Jul 28 '26

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u/Ponderputty Jul 28 '26

Stonewall was gay people throwing bricks at cops and I'm tired of pretending that bricks aren't still cool and good pieces of history.

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u/EamonBrennan Jul 28 '26

Don't forget Dave Van Ronk. He was at a bar 2 doors away, wasn't LGBT, but said "As far as I was concerned, anybody who'd stand against the cops was all right with me and that's why I stayed in." He was the first person arrested that night.

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u/makemeking706 Jul 28 '26

Interestingly, most of the gay bars in the City were owned by the mob.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-why-did-mafia-own-bar/

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u/EatingDragons Jul 28 '26

Because running a place for gays to congregate was straight up illegal so the only way they could operate was alongside organized crime, which was only really a good deal for the mob owners of the bars because patrons and staff would still have to deal with the police raids