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Their next plan is to beat up a rabbi on Yom Kippur

I hadn't mentioned the case sooner because I really have nothing insightful or thought provoking to add, but the fallout from a recent TABC/police raid in Fort Worth of a gay bar on the anniversary of New York's Stonewall riot has begun to snowball, receiving a lot of national press attention. The New York Times covered it over the weekend, and here's a snippet from today's LA Times coverage ("Police raid at gay club in Texas stirs ugly memories"):Reporting from Fort Worth -- Todd Camp and some friends had just marked the 40th anniversary of the police raid on New York's Stonewall Inn by screening a documentary on the historic gay riots and then heading for drinks at the Rainbow Lounge.Camp remembered looking across the bar, packed with gay and some straight couples, and marveling how much times had changed since Stonewall -- the spark that ignited the gay rights movement...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 06, 2009 (boomark / email).