Reply #8: I've spent a short time in jail for the cause [View All]

[mitchtv]

Luckily I escaped most of the time. It's amazing how far a little bit of leadership goes. Organize, organize , organize. At this point in my life jail could be very dangerous, as I depend on exotic medicines to stay alive. It would be nice to shut down I5 or LAX IMO (think big)




On Halloween night (31 October), 1969, sixty members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the Society for Individual Rights (SIR) staged a protest at San Francisco's Examiner in response to another in a series of news articles disparaging LGBT people in San Francisco's gay bars and clubs.<1><2> The "peaceful protest" against the "homophobic editorial policies" of the San Francisco Examiner turned "tumultuous" and was called "Friday of the Purple Hand" and "Bloody Friday of the Purple Hand".<3><4><5><6><2> Examiner employees "dumped a bag of printers' ink from the third story window of the newspaper building onto the crowd".

I narrowly escaped spending time in jail that day, I was lucky there were a lot of leaders that day, more willing to step up to the SFPD than I.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_symbols#...