“The reality is, if people are looking to perpetrate anti-gay bias and violence, there are very few places in this world that are safe once that intent has formed,” Sharon Stapel, the former executive director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, said at the time of the attack. The assailants were arrested, and one was later charged with hate crimes. Two men attacked another man in the restroom in 2010 after he informed them that they were in a gay bar. The Stonewall Inn played a central role in the modern gay rights movement, but it has also seen antigay and anti-transgender violence in recent years. He told the court that he could not remember setting the fire because he had blacked out after drinking an entire bottle of whiskey. 53 Christopher Street, New York, New York. The nightly basement disco features the hardwood dance floor with a dance-up bar, and the lights and sound to. Stonewall Inn is a gay bar & National Historic Landmark, site of the 1969 riots that launched the gay rights movement. The street level opens early and offers a piano where you can sing or just listen or sit a spell on a stool at our 360 bar.
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There are 2 floors each with it's own full bar. Masmari pleaded guilty to arson and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in July 2014. Specialties: The Monster has 30 years experience of The Village and the gay history of the iconic neighborhood. More than 700 people were in the club at the time, including much of the city’s gay and transgender leadership, but no one was hurt. Musab Mohammed Masmari, 30, poured gasoline on the stairs of a gay club and set it alight shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve. He was sentenced to four life terms in 2001.
Gay, who told the police he was on a mission to kill gay people, said he was upset that his last name had made him the target of anti-gay jokes. I wasn’t out to anybody except my very close friends.” “When it happened, I was not out to my family,” Joel Tucker, who was shot in the back during the rampage, told The Washington Post last year.