But the place I had to check out for the first time – a pilgrimage of sorts, really – was the Stonewall Inn on Christopher St., originally built in 1843 as stables, and which never was a hotel. The Stonewall was gutted by fire in the 1960s, then reopened on March 18, 1967, as the Stonewall, site of the famed Stonewall riots of 1969 that ignited the modern-day gay-civil-rights movement.
Except we’ve been mixing up myth and facts behind Stonewall for 40 years. Critically-acclaimed author David Carter in his must-read book STONEWALL: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution claims that prior to the raid on the Stonewall Interpol uncovered the theft of negotiated bonds which were turning up on the streets of Europe. The bonds were being stolen by gay Wall St. employees who were victims of a blackmail operation run by Stonewall Inn manager Ed Murphy.
Murphy, in spite of having been previously arrested for running an extensive national blackmail ring based on homosexual prostitution, had never been to jail because he had incriminating photographs of one of the prostitution ring’s most prominent customers, then-FBI head honcho J. Edgar Hoover.
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