The other problem I have with all of it is that we are claiming that “its not fair and that they singled gays out” but if Fort Worth PD and TABC do these checks for drunks all the time, and this is the first time we have heard of it happening in a gay bar, wouldn’t that lead to believe that they are trying to be fair by including us in this. Where is Lulac standing up for the cops claiming that “yeah, the cops inspected somewhere other than a Hispanic bar that night”.

People really get that you cannot drink and drive. People cannot grasp the idea of not being drunk in public…even if your not driving. I wish I had been at this bar that night. I drink 2 beers then I am done. They would have been very bored by me if they even talked to me…of course I am not Drama, and I am not trying to exploit an incident for my cause. Wasn’t the parade on Sunday already planned for the Stonewall Anniversary? Tell me your not exploiting the incident when the same parade that we had permits to do, turns into a “Texas Gay Bar Raid March”?

If anything needs changed it is the laws on public intoxication. I saw one link where TABC and Irving PD went through this same thing with “white” bars 2 or three years ago. None of the officers got sued, because the were enforcing the laws as written. Same with the Stonewall cops. 40 years ago sodomy was enforceable. Wrong to arrest for kissing another of the same sex, of course, but 40 years ago that was the law. YOU want change, have the Texas Legislature actually do something and change the PI law and outdated Alcohol laws. Sue the officers ? …never will fly in this instance.

And damn the democrats who tried to monopolize the crowd’s activity when their own president elect won’t recognize the necessity of equal rights – someone who should know better than to deny equal rights to anyone. Someone who promised he would.

“America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.”
Peter Kropotkin

Keep fighting, my queer friends! YOU CAN AND WILL WIN THIS WAR! BE PERSISTENT AND PARTICIPATE!