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Decades before the Stonewall Riots in 1969, there was another violent police altercation in 1903 at the Ariston Bathhouse in New York City.
The Ariston Bathhouse Raid is a critical fragment of queer history, a grim reminder of a past filled with widespread prejudice, but also an example of how far society has come in accepting LGBTQ+ people over the last 100 years.
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The Ariston Bathhouse Raid: Unpacking a century-long legacy of anti-LGBTQ+ policing in America
The first violent policing of gay spaces happened in 1903 at the Ariston bathhouse in New York City and is an often-forgotten moment in queer history.
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Baron Wiseman
Interesting. I had never heard of this particular moment in gay history.
Can you imagine the lives of those men being arrested? The fear, the ostracization of what would happen to them and what would become of their lives.
My2CentsWorth
For many, their lives were over.
After Trump becomes president the future may include this type of raid for any places that dare to function after Russian-type anti-LGBTQ laws have been enacted on the national level.
Baron Wiseman
@My2CentsWorth
What an ignorant comment. Based on what? President Trump has already been president once; were you involved in “raid” when he was president? Did he talk about any type of raid? Stop playing the victim. Your ilk made the same ridiculous, irresponsible comments when President George W. Bush was in office as well.