Fred Sargeant was a leader in the Homophile Youth Movement and an organizer of the 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day gay pride march. Pride50
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“Sometimes you’d see them waiting outside the store, walking back and forth,” Sargeant remembered of the store's many nervous customers. “And you knew this is another person that’s having a little difficulty taking that first step.” “On the night of Stonewall I'd been out to dinner at a friend's house with Craig and we'd finished up,” Sargeant recalled. “It was late around midnight or so, and we left and checked the shop like we normally would and then walked over towards Christopher Street.”
“You just heard clanging off the building and the cops retreated back into the building. At that point the crowd tipped over," Sargeant said. He and Rodwell decided that they had to do something to commemorate what they saw to be the first moment of a movement for gay liberation."It was just about dawn, and went back to our apartment where we started working on the first leaflet."
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