Even in the late 70's it had a gay population that was in the early days of the coming out stage.
I recall a second-hand shop that caught my eye. In the window was a beautiful leather coat that had an 8-dollar sales tag on it.
I went in to purchase it, and the blatantly gay African American salesperson rapped it up and said to me, "that will be $800.00." "WTF", I said, "I thought it was 8.00.
He very gayishly rolled his eyes and yanked the coat out of the fancy shmanshy bag.
He then angrily pranced to the window and placed it back there. Ha!!!
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Oh yes, I remember hearing of her story..
I find it hard to believe she committed suicide given her bodacious personality - her skin tone made it easy to dismiss her death as a suicide. I still don't buy it!
I remember during my brief NYU days passing many of the historical spots related to the Stonewall Uprising - there was a cool little spot on Christopher Street, my date at the time, introduced me to..
We both had no idea of how historical that place/area was..
We both also had no idea how important a role the Black Gay presence was in the uprising. Just being truthful.
I think, in today's culture, Marsha Johnson would be pegged a 'Trans', but the controversy still persists.
RIP.
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