{"id":3866,"date":"2009-07-06T11:32:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T16:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2009-07-06T11:32:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T16:32:02","slug":"if-you-understand-nothing-else-understand-this-those-days-are-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3866","title":{"rendered":"If You Understand Nothing Else Understand This: Those Days Are Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Savage puts his finger on what&#8217;s so utterly dumbfounding about the Rainbow Lounge raid&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;The police burst into that bar as if it were still 1968, the year before the NYPD&#8217;s raid on the Stonewall Inn, as if the old rules were still in force. They assumed that the other men at Rainbow Lounge that night&mdash;the men who witnessed four officers assaulting Chad Gibson&mdash;would disappear into the night, grateful that they got out of the Rainbow Lounge without getting assaulted and arrested too. The police didn&#8217;t expect the other gay men men at the Rainbow Lounge to talk to the media&mdash;or to organize a protest outside Fort Worth&#8217;s city hall. The police didn&#8217;t even seem to realize that there were men <em>taking pictures with their cell phones<\/em> during the raid. It&#8217;s as if the police in Fort Worth didn&#8217;t know what decade this is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing on <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2009\/07\/06\/their-first-mistake\">SLOG<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Savage puts his finger on what&#8217;s so utterly dumbfounding about the Rainbow Lounge raid&#8230; &#8230;The police burst into that bar as if it were still 1968, the year before the NYPD&#8217;s raid on the Stonewall Inn, as if the old rules were still in force. They assumed that the other men at Rainbow Lounge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,22,38,18,20,12],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-anti-gay-violence","tag-fighting-back","tag-gay-history","tag-gratuitous-anti-gay-hate","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}