40 years ago...

Police had raided a bar in Greenwich Village, NY, and arrested a bunch of drag queens for being dressed as women (which was illegal in those stupid days). The original purpose was a "gay bar raid".

"American gays and lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s faced a legal system more anti-homosexual than those of some Warsaw Pact countries"

a talk on monads in web20 (careful, it's scala/haskell)

here