Up through the 70s cops in every big city in America were just breaking up gay bars and beating the living shit out of everybody inside for no reason. Gay bars had to pay tons of protection money to the mob or dirty cops to stop this from happening (when possible), and their drink prices cost up to 5 times as much as a fancy straight bar. Gay people would have to pay $10 or $20 or more for a beer, and if they tried to go into a straight bar they could easily be beaten to death by a drunk mob.
Let's not forget you can shoot Harvey Milk to death and get a slap on the wrist just because he's gay, and all you need is to use "the twinkie defense."
The constant brutal gaybashing done by cops around the country only slowed down after the Stonewall riots where the cops got their asses beat down by an army of totally wasted gays and trannies and it was shown on television.
Gay rights movements are much slower (and lonelier) than ethnic based civil rights movements, because unlike blacks and Jews and other ethnic minorities, gays don't have gay parents and gay siblings and an all-gay neighborhood to act as a support group (unless they're born in San Francisco, West Hollywood, or Miami).
So don't be too hard on Kasz, he was making a really valid point.
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