STONEWALL
Rebellion Veterans Association
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2020 "STONEWALL Newzletta" and Events
https://www.StonewallVets.org/mainpage.htm
SVA's color theme in June is lavender for Gay Pride Month!
Updated: Thursday, 4 June 2020 @ 12 noon.
during the worldwide 'Wuhan Virus' pandemic!
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020 (exact anniversary date) -- "SVA'S 51st ANNUAL CONFERENCE & STONEWALL VETERANS REUNION + EYEWITNESS TESTIMONIALS"
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[PLACE] S.V.A. 51st Annual Conference flyer here!
The National STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association ("S.V.A.") presents the much-anticipated and timely-needed "SVA's 51st Annual Conference & Stonewall Veterans Reunion + Testimonials"
on Saturday, June 27th, 2020 commencing @ 3:15 p.m.
Ironically, this year's S.V.A. conference happens on the exact anniversary date of the
first night of the 1969 rebellion on the 27th -- the day of international and Gay icon Judy Garland's televised funeral in Manhattan! The S.V.A. is most known as the organizational home for
actual New York City police-raid victim patrons of the Original STONEWALL Bar & Dance Club (the "STONEWALL Club") and/or participants in the historic five-night 1969 Stonewall Rebellion for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender ("G.L.B.T.")
rights! The S.V.A. is the original, the authentic and the only barometer for
everything "Stonewall"!
Unlike any organization in the world, the S.V.A. provides
interviews about the Stonewall Era for people, institutions and media
who want to communicate with actual Stonewallers!
At this unique conference, there
will be legendary 'veterans' of the police-raided original
STONEWALL Club and the late June and
early July 1969 Stonewall
Uprising! Confirmed "Stonewall Veterans", to date, fabulously include (alphabetically by first name): Anthony T. Coron, Bert Coffman, David C. Scott, Jitters Greenfield, Joani C. Sobel, Keith Lonesome, Leigh P. McManus, Molly Bennett Aitken, Ramon Bellido, Rusty Rose,.... There will be some of the original New York City Police Department
("NYCPD") Sixth Precinct police officers at the Stonewall Uprising known as the 'Stonewall Cops'! The SVA's
conference is enthusiastically hosted by Stonewall veteran (he coined the term), S.V.A. founder, longtime Screen Actors Guild ("S.A.G.") member and S.V.A. boardmember Willson Lee Henderson.
S.V.A. Guest Speakers: There shall be a Male Keynote Speaker and a Female Keynoter
to be announced after voting is completed (June 13) by S.V.A. members.
Plus, a super
special surprise speaker shall be a 'major'
candidate for the New York City
Mayor election in 2021! There will be public official guest
speakers such
as U.S. congressmembers (no, not the Natler),
N.Y. state senators (no, not Brat Hoylman), NYS assemblymembers (no,
not Becky Seawright), NYC borough presidents (no, not Ruby Diaz Junior),
NY Court judges (no, not Noach Deare), NYC councilmembers (no, not Jimma Ban Brainer), district
leaders (no, not 'Keen' Berger {by marriage}) -- and, yes, Federal, State and City candidates!!! Several
public officials present the S.V.A. with historical proclamations and civil rights citations.
This S.V.A. event
is always well-covered
by all of the media -- television, radio and press, including
regional
newspapers, national magazines and community newsletters (no, not the noxious Gayragpaper)! Like
the #1 Stonewall Jukebox song (1968) by Marvin & Tammi clearly conveys: "Ain't
Nothing Like The Real Thing"! It was a Gay theme song.
Divine conference venue
is the historic St. John's Evangelical Lutheran
Church at
81 Christopher Street off Seventh Avenue in Greenwich Village,
NYC. The 'Invocation' is delivered by the Church's openly-Gay pastor, the
Reverend Mark E. Erson.
"Deja vu all over again": On display (back on Christopher Street just like in 1969,
this time directly in front of the Church, ironically with a
NYCPD vehicle permit, will be the automotive classic and
historically famous blue 1969
convertible known as the
"Stonewall Car"!
Bring your cameras or photo phones! Conference event
manager is the SVA's handsome (and many say hot) general manager AnDre M. Christie. Promotion is by The Von Agency with general advertising and social media. "The
Happening", a #1 song in
1967 by the #1 singers in the Stonewall Jukebox, Diana Ross & The
Supremes, is the opening sound @ 3:15 p.m. The
symbolic finale song is the #1 closing song of virtually all Gay
bar and Gay dance club jukeboxes
throughout the 1960s and the 1970s by Miss Connie Francis: "Where The Boys Are (Someone Waits For Me)" also known as the 'National Gay Anthem'!
June 2020 -- PREMIERE: "INSIDE STONEWALL!" DOCUMENTARY about the 1969 STONEWALL REBELLION
For the first time ever, the historic 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York City is investigated and explored from the New York City Police Department ("NYCPD") in conjunction with the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association
("S.V.A.") and other participants or eyewitnesses. This is the first time
that the historic Stonewall events are investigative-reported from the
police perspective -- they know endlessly more than the slanderous and scandalous Schleps-owned
Gayragpaper. Several of the members of the S.V.A. are interviewed 'up-close and personal' in the film. The
S.V.A. is internationally known as representing the authentic veterans
of the STONEWALL Club police raids and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender ("G.L.B.T.") civil rights uprising! The
documentary results are awesome with the great
insight, previously unseen documents, and prior secluded records of the
NYCPD -- plus, most signifcantly, Stonewall veteran testimonials!
For a relevant sample of the greatly researched and really revealing "Inside STONEWALL!" documentary, the NYCPD in the Sixth Precinct's old metal file cabinets in the basement unearthed an 8" x 10"
glossy official police photo of a known Gay person during one of the nights
of the the Stonewall Rebellion! The person is bookended, i.e., apprehended, with
a uniformed police officer on each side of the captive. Yet, in recent
years, this same person has been the target of a shady smear campaign
and lying personal attacks by libelers, defamers and slanderers via the NYC Gayragpaper. Some
shameful and factually ignorant million-dollar G.L.B.T. groups such as the supposedly Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ("GLAAD"), known to hypocritically defame actual Gay leaders, and the allegedly Seniors Active in a Gay Environment ("SAGE"), shamefully
never contacting, much less helping, the G.L.B.T. seniors of the
S.V.A., whether it is during Gay Pride Month or a deadly health pandemic (shame on them), have
mindlessly added to the defamation and hate instead of the praise!
For the milestone "Stonewall 50", both of those money-oriented, pompous corporations shunned
the heroes in the S.V.A., and instead presented fakes! Let
all
said liars eat crow -- and choke on their lies! There will
be a private, invitation-only, premiere of "Inside STONEWALL!".
Special 'Documentary Credit' is prominently declared in the film for the
National STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association!
Thursday, June 4 -- 'STONEWALL' DEMOCRAT CLUB PUTS OUT ANOTHER STUPID and INSULTING EMALE
Stonewall Democrat Club ("SDC") also known as Stonewalling Democrat Clan, a group that is most known for ripping off the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association,
has put out another stupid and insulting emale! It must be Gay
Pride Month -- it unfortunately brings out some jealous haters
from within the G.L.B.T. communities. SDC's stuoid and insulting
emale has the subject: "Stonewall was a riot". It would be
stupid enough but to write that when there are actual 'riots'
across America insuring endless people -- one killed -- and millions of
dollars in destruction and ruing businesses and people's lives makes it
all the stupider -- especially when the reality is that "Sthe Stonewall
Rebellion (get it?) was not a 'riot'! FYI, this S.D.C.
is a factually-challeged group that asks candidates verbally,
besides a written form to be signed, if they ever voted for a
Republican? Dumb question! Nonetheless, what the SDC
does not reveal is that not only do many, if not most, perhaps all, of
their members vote for a Republican but the club itself has endorsed a
Republican(s)! This is just one example of their diviseness and
duplicity. Hey, SDC: change your name!
Wednesday, June 3 -- STONEWALL VET BIRTHDAY: MICHAEL IRA SWERDLOW from LONG ISLAND
Gay * PRIDE * Month
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Saturday, May 30 -- PLANNED PRE-PRIDE MONTH MEETING MUST BE Re-SCHEDULED DUE to HEALTH PANDEMIC
Update: Unfortunately, the S.V.A. cannot have its planned Pre-Pride meeting due to the
health safety situation caused by the Wuhan Virus epidemic. The state "pause" has not
yet been lifted for any organizations to have public meetings. In New York City, for
example, sadly, there are still about one hundred deaths daily! See you on June 27th!
Wednesday, May 27 -- STONEWALL VETERAN BIRTHDAY: JOANI C. SOBEL aka J.C. of MANHATTAN
Tuesday, May 26 -- SVA's WILLSON HENDERSON FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST THE SCHLEPS' GAYRAGPAPER
The SVA's founder Willson L. Henderson
--despite all of the courts being closed due to the Wuhan Virus
pandemic -- was able, thanks to a timely new option as of today, to
file the court lawsuit against shady, schmeary and slanderous Schneps Communications
on-line! What a swell feature! The charges are:
Libel, defamation, slander, personal attacks and loss of income
resulting from the printed confabulations! Schleps Media has a
pattern of out-of-control trash journalism. Like Willson learned
from his father: "If you don't
fight back... you lose"! Once a delayed (due to the
pandemic) court date is set, stay tuned for the first court appearance
rundown on the lowdowners!
Monday, May 25 -- MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY: REMEMBERING THOSE WHOM WE HAVE LOST
Wednesday, May 20 -- S.V.A. STAFF BIRTHDAY: ELDON JOHNSON, YOUTH-4-SVA ORGANIZER
Wednesday, May 20 -- ORIGINAL STONEWALL CLUB JUKEBOX SONGSTRESS's BIRTHDAY: CHER!
Saturday, May 23 -- N.YS. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE CALLS (AGAIN) CHECKING on the STONEWALL VETS
The executive department person calling the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association on behalf of New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo,
and others on his staff, have regularly followed-up out of concern
during a deadly health epidemic for the definitively legendary
yet, nonetheless, particularly vulnerable surviving members of the
historic 1969 Stonewall police raids and G.L.B.T. rebellion. It
is no secret that the Stonewall vets are, now, all senior citizens and,
in addition, most presumably have serious 'underlying conditions'.
For example, one S.V.A. member if put on a vigorous ventilator
would soon kill him due to a lung situation. The S.V.A.
wholeheartedly appreciates the sincere concern and the renewed offer to
help the S.V.A. in any way! (Clearly, the governor and his staff
are in sharp contrast to the irresponsibility, ignorance and rudeness
of electeds such as The Schlub and Horey J. and Ruby Diaz Jr.!)
The S.V.A. and all citizenry greatly appreciate Governor Cuomo's
daily and detailed, sit-down press conferences on the current health
pandemic with the epicenter in New York City!
Friday, May 15 -- HERITAGE of SHAME aka 'HERITAGE of PRIDE' STILL HASN'T LEARNED THEIR LESSON
Heritage of Pride
("HOP"), known more now for its money, money, money trajectory, has
again (and again) ignorantly displayed its collective rudeness
reinforcing its also known as Heritage of Shame("HOS")!
No one at the original STONEWALL Club from 1966 through
1969 would have ever imagined that Gays would be able to legally marry
each other! Nor would any of said G.L.B.T. people have
horrored that
there would be a group that started fifteen years later after US
would then
on the fiftieth anniversary ignore and insult said heroes of the
subsequent 1969 5-night Stonewall Rebellion! The dysfunctional
and largely ungrateful communities have an increasingly bad pattern of
not giving credit where credit is (over)due! Incredibly,
HOS's
ludicrous lies have become so outlandish that they no longer know
what their lying
about! To be continued.... Court filings resume soon!
Saturday, May 9: GAY ROCK 'n' ROLL 'n' SOUL LEGEND DIES: LITTLE RICHARD @ 87
Wednesday, May 6 -- WILLSON HENDERSON LAWSUIT vs. GAYRAGPAPER IGNITES WHEN COURTS RE-OPEN
Someone -- namely the STONEWALL Rebellion Veteans Association's founder and figure head Willson L. Henderson
-- in the dysfunctional Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
("G.L.B.T.") communities has to stand up to the slanderers in the
heterosexually-owned and journalistic ethically-deprived Schneps Media aka Schleps Communications dba Gay City News aka Gay Sh*tty News aka Gayragpaper
now the lower-cased and low-life 'gcn'!! That person to stand up
is Willson! What else is new already? The Gayragpaper's
persistent poison pen Druncan Ozburn
aka Duncan Osborne (from Massachusetts not NY) is the despicable reason
for the necessary lawsuit. It's similiar to GOAL's openly-Gay Tom
Verni having to sue David Kilmnick of the Long Island GLBT Network!
And for the same reasons: libel, defamation and slander.
Druncan acts and poison pens as if he were in NYC in 1969.
He wasn't. Like the popular song, Willson is the "Native
New Yorker"! Stay tuned for the reopening of the Courts!
Sunday, May 3 -- ORIGINAL STONEWALL JUKEBOX STAR BIRTHDAY: FRANKIE VALLI
Saturday, 2 May -- 50 YEARS of GAY PRIDE PERSONS and NEW YORK CITY G.L.B.T. PARADES
The STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association is
featured in an out-standing collage of individual photos of dozens
of Stonewall veterans. There are many photos from many Gay Pride
parades in New York City. Also shown is the famous,
classic, blue 1969 "Stonewall Convertible"! The
photographs span five decades from 1969 to 2019! Collection
of photos created by Leticia Remauro of The Von Agency.
https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=0K9hGL0GW8c
Friday, May 1 -- REMEMBERING NYC PARKS COMMISSIONER and S.V.A. SUPPORTER HENRY J. "STARQUEST" STERN (1935-2019)
May 2020 -- THE U.S. PRESIDENT DECLARES: "OLDER AMERICANS MONTH"
"Older Americans Month", stemming from the current worldwide pandemic, is totally relevant to all of the veterans of the 1966 to 1969
Stonewall police raids and the 1969 Stonewall uprising as all of
the Stonewall veterans are (drum roll)... older Americans! The members of the National STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association ("S.V.A.") are especially appreciative of this relevant recognition and timely concern. As everybody in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender ("G.L.B.T.") community knows (except perhaps the Schleps-owned Gayragpaper creeps),
the most vulnerable to the deadly Wuhan virus pandemic in the G.L.B.T.
communities are unquestionably the elders!
Saturday, April 25 -- MONTHLY MEETING of STONEWALL VETS CANCELLED due to PANDEMIC
New York State Governor and longtime S.V.A. supporter Andrew M. Cuomo
announced today, the 6th of April, that during this pandemic New York
State on P.A.U.S.E. has been extended through April 29th. This means
that non-essential businesses and all schools will remain closed. New
Yorkers must continue to stay at home, follow the social distancing
protocols when outside, including staying at least six feet away
from others when in public, and preferably wearing face coverings.
Thus, this S.V.A. meeting must be cancelled! See you on 30th of May!
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Meanwhile, unlike thoughtless NYC-wide officials, the Governor's office
has contacted the S.V.A. different ways and different times during this
deadly pandemic, particularly for G.L.B.T. senior citizens! For your
informatiom, all of the Stonewall veterans are obviously senior elders!
If someone was 18 in 1969, they would be, at least, 68 now or much more!
The NYS Department of Health has declared: "Seniors, and persons with
pre-existing medical issues, are most vulnerable to the Corona Virus
(COVID-19) and are disproportionately likely to develop severe health
complications as a result of infection". That reality is common sense!
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Friday, April 24 -- STONEWALL JUKEBOX SUPERSTAR BIRTHDAY: BARBRA STREISAND
Wednesday, April 8 -- REMEMBERING STONEWALL VET RAY McCAFFREY (Feb. 20, 1932 - April 8, 2019)
Monday, April 1st (April Fool's Day) -- SVA's WILLSON' HENDERSON SLANDER SUIT VS. SCHNEPS MEDIA dba GAYRAGPAPER
- For the past two decades, when members, supporters and sponsors of the Stonewall Rebellion Veterans Association ("S.V.A.") think of "April Fools", they instantly think of the fool-hearty and foolish Gay City News aka Gay Sh*tty News aka GayRagPaper now liddle g.c.n.', currently in its sixth set of six owners, now the allegedly heterosexual mommy 'n' sonny (Vicky Sue and Joshie) duo publishers of Schneps Communications aka Schleps Media!
To paraphrase a popular ant-acid televison commercial:
How do you spell 'trash'? SVA's founder Willson L. Henderson (WLH") has announced that he will personally sue the Schleps dba Gayragpaper! Although the Schleps know that
the
sleaze article by the dubious Druncan Ozburn and despicably published on the eve of "Stonewall 50" against the legendary S.V.A. and its luminary
director WLH is libelous and
defamatory, they have kept it posted on the internet for nearly a year!
The last time that WLH sued the NYC Gayragpaper (five owners ago), the NYC Civil Court
famously declared Willson as the "Gay Rosa Parks.... who continues to
fight for G.L.B.T. rights"! Insofar as all of the Courts (except
criminal, of which this case is reminiscent) are closed due to the
worldwide pandemic, the pending
lawsuit is simply delayed. The main target of the
maliciousness and
lies, Willson has his legal suit against the Schneps aka the Schleps on
hold. The paperwork is completed! It shall be processed promptly on the reopening of the New York City Courts!
Saturday, March 28 -- STONEWALL VETERANS ASSOCIATION MEETING CANCELLED
After more than a half century of existence, the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Asssociation,
unfortunately, due to unforeseen worldwide circumstances of a
contageous virus, the venue where the S.V.A. meets, St. John's
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Greenwich Village, understandably must
suspend all meetings as per emergency law! The Wuhan Virus
has caused the cancellation of endless events; huge like the two-million spectators New York
City St. Patrick's Day Parade (for the first time in over 250 years since 1762), all Broadway and off-Broadway shows, and
literally all sports events, and small like the S.V.A. get2gether.
The should-have-been-avoided, reckless virus has resulted in the victimized deaths of over 15,000 people just in New York State!
The S.V.A. would never have guessed -- who would -- that a
monthly meeting here in the U.S.A. would be upended due to that
well-known branding: "Made in China"!
Thursday, March 26 -- "STONEWALL JUKEBOX" SUPERSTAR BIRTHDAY: DIANA ROSS
Wednesday, March 25 -- ST. JOHN's EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
St. John's Evangelical Church
(the "Church") in Greenwich Village, NYC, is where the S.V.A. meets! In
this unusual and unexpected time of a worldwide pandemic and financial
crisis, closed businesses and home restrictions, you do not have to be
a mathemetician to figure out that with the Church closed from all
Sunday masses, services, meetings, and events, it is an
obvious financial drain on the Church. Please contribute to
the Church that houses the STONEWALL Veterans' Association annual
conferences and all of its monthly meetings. We are requesting --
our idea -- that you make a worthwhile and tax-exempt contribution
to the Church! Please write a check or money order payable
to: St. John's Lutheran Church. In the memo section, simply
print: S.R.V.A. (with the dots). You can mail it directly to the
Church or send it to the S.V.A. at 70-A Greenwich Avenue, Suite
120, Manhattan, NY 10011. We shall present the donations in
person to the wonderful Pastor Mark E. Erson.
Besides monetary support, you can also 'like' the Church at:
https://www.FaceBook.com/StJohnsLutheranChurchNYC
Monday, March 23 -- S.V.A. BIRTHDAY: PUBLIC RELATIONIST LETICIA REMAURO in STATEN ISLAND
Friday, March 20 -- SVA's
FOUNDER WILLSON HENDERSON ANNOUNCES PLANNED PERSONAL DEFAMATION LAWSUIT
AGAINST the LIBELOUS SCHNEPS COMMUNICATIONS, CURRENT
CAGE-HOLDERS of the SLANDEROUS NYC GAYRAGPAPER
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Tuesday, March 17 -- ST. PATRICK'S DAY -- All Parades Cancelled due to China Virus
Monday, March 16 -- BROADWAY CARES PRESENTS "BROADWAY BACKWARDS" at NEW AMSTERDAM THEATRE - CANCELLED
Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS and the STONEWALL Veterans Association have
had a longterm, productive and mutual relationship for about a
quarter-of-a-century! The S.V.A. is always happy and proud to
urge attendance at BC/EFA's great theatrical and musical productions!
"Broadway Backwards" is a wonderful, talented and witty musical
extravaganza with the gender roles of popular songs is reversed.
For example, Connie Francis's "Where The Boys Are" would get
turned into "Where The Girls Are"! Venue is the New Amsterdam
Theatre at Times Square on West 42nd Street, Manhattan, NY. For
more info on Broadway Cares,
please view: https://www.BroadwayCares.org . Update: Due to the national emergency caused by the China Virus, this event had to be cancelled.
Sunday, March 15 -- PRIVATE "INSIDE STONEWALL!" DOCUMENTARY RECEPTION in TRIBECA, NYC POSTPONED DUE to the CHINA VIRUS OUTBREAK
Friday, the 13th of March -- S.V.A. BIRTHDAY: LONGTIME LEGAL COUNSEL HALLY M. WEINER
Saturday, March 7 -- S.V.A. STAFF BIRTHDAY: YOUTH ORGANIZER RAINBOW MELLIQUE
Saturday, February 29 -- S.VA's MONTHLY MEETING at ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH in GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC @ 3:15 p.m. until 5:15 p.m.
Reports from several Stonewall veterans. Willson Henderson welcomes suggestions and diagrams plans for the "SVA's 51st Annual Conference & Reunion" on June 27th. Bert Coffman
relates the Community Bored #2 streetfair activity hearing for the
forthcoming "17th Annual S.V.A. Streetfair"! C/B-2 complained
about too many stretfairs in East Greenwich Village. Then,
eliminate others noit the legandary S.V.A. They even invoked
the East 14th street 'busway' -- irrelevant to the SVA's streetfair
below said street. Joani Sobel updates
communications with various public officials such as NYS Governor
Andrew Cuomo and Congresswoman Carolina Maloney. St. John's
Lutheran Church's wonderful pastor Reverend Mark Erson makes a special appearance to chat with the Stonewall vets!
Thursday, February 27 -- COURT: "STONEWALL VETERANS ASSOCIATION vs. SCHNEPS MEDIA fka GAY CITY NEWS aka GAYRAGPAPER dba gcn"
Saturday, January 25 , 2020 -- NATIONAL STONEWALL REBELLION VETERANS ASSOCIATION MONTHLY MEETING in NEW YORK CITY
The National STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association
("S.V.A.") meets the last Saturday of every month
-- unless it is an
American national holiday! Various reports, including
communications with other G.L.B.T. and non-GLBT organizations and from elected public officials and candidates, are
provided by Stonewall
veterans. In fact, one of the SVA's longtime and active honorary members is a candidate... for U.S. President!
Opening discussions and preliminary planning for the "SVA's 51st Annual Conference & Stonewall Veterans Reunion + Testimonials"
on Saturday the 27th of June in 2020 at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran
Church! Nominations for both the male and female keynote
speakers! A new "Songs of the Original STONEWALL Club Jukebox" compact disc will be compiled for the event and "Stonewall 51"!
Updates are dished out on the SVA's lawsuit in the Civil Court of the City of New York against the often-dumped Gayragpaper a.k.a. poisonous Gay City News now d.b.a. as the down-sized and down-low 'g.c.n.'. The Gayragpaper is currently
mismanaged and the source of diss-information by the heterosexually-owned Schneps Communuications,
for libel,
defamation, slander, loss of revenue, etc. It is highly
unlikely that the Gayragpaper libelers will prevail in their 'motion to
dismiss' as it is filled with lies and more libel! If, as is
widely-circulated and upon information and belief, Schleps Media finally extinguishes the
veracity-challenged, slander monger and journalistic travesty Druncan Ozburn a.k.a. Duncan Osborne,
the lawsuit shall, of course, continue, and expand, insofar as the Schlepses published
the trash and still have not had it removed to the trash bin! Question: Why doesn't the leading G.L.B.T. city in the World have several -- as NYC
did for decades -- but at least one Gay-owned newspaper? NYC has nada!
The
SVA's divine venue is at the historic and welcoming St. John's
Evangelical Lutheran Church full-service Founders' Room at 83
Christopher Street just off Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village,
Manhattan,
New York City from 3:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Feel free to bring
foods and beverages to share. For more 411 on the legendary
S.V.A.,
please visit: https://www.StonewallVets.org/mainpage.htm.
Thursday, January 2, 2020 -- S.V.A. BIRTHDAY: NATIONAL REP DONZEL R. WILLIAMS
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SVA's color
theme for the month of December is appropriately green for festive holiday Christmas!
V.A. Events"
is updated daily (except Sundays and holidays):
1st January 2020 @ 12 noon (EST)
Tuesday, December 31 -- STONEWALL REBELLION VETERANS ASSOCIATION COMPLETES ITS 50th YEAR!
Monday, December 30 -- S.V.A. BIRTHDAY: MENDY SELTZA, TREASURER of the STONEWALL V.A.
Monday, December 30 -- BIRTHDAY: STEVEN GRADMAN, PRESIDENT of PRIDE DEMOCRATS of NYC
Saturday, December 28 -- S.V.A. MONTHY MEMBERS MEETING -- HOLIDAY EDITION
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The last Saturday in December is the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association's
traditional Christmas and yearly Holiday weekend meeting and
culinary festivities! The most divine venue for this
S.V.A. event is a church: St. John's Evangelical Lutheran
Church
("SJELC")... in the most appropriate area: Greenwich Village... on the
most appropriate street: Christopher! Stonewall veteran reports are presented by: Willson Henderson, Joani Sobel, Berti Coffman, Rusty Rose and Ramon Bellido. A
forthcoming NYC mayoral candidate may stop by to say 'Happy Holidaze'
and to pledge their support as mayor to the oft-overlooked
STONEWALL veterans! Several actual veterans of the original
Stonewall Club police raids and/or rebellion provide end-of-year
reflections on "STONEWALL 50"! Music will be the "Songs of The Original STONEWALL Club Jukebox - Holiday Edition" compiled by the SVA's Willson Henderson. He presents a special Christmas 2019 edition of the 30-song compact music disc to Reverend Mark E. Erson,
popular pastor of SJELC. Members V-O-T-E: On the next
organizational recipient of the bequething of the famous and valuable,
classic, blue 1969 convertible also known as the "Stonewall Car"!
The SJELC Founders' Room is at 81 Christopher Street off Seventh
Avenue in Greenwich Village, NYC. "Jesus Juice", as
great gay entertainer Michael Jackson called it, has its first pouring @
3:15 p.m.
Saturday, December 28 -- BIRTHDAY: S.V.A. GENERAL MANAGER ANDRE M. CHRISTIE @ 34
Tuesday, December 24 -- ON THE RADIO: CHRISTMAS and HOLIDAY SONGS
In addition to the "Christmas & Holiday Songs" on Lite F.M. Radio in the New York Tri-State area, every
year WCBS-Radio -- known for 'the greatest hits' -- plays
round-the-clock Christmas and holiday songs. You will hear many
songs that were perennial holiday favortes in the STONEWALL jukebox
at the authentic STONEWALL Club from 1966 to 1969. The
artists include The Ronettes, The Four Seasons, Darlene Love, Frank
Sinatra, The Supremes, The Miracles, Aretha Franklin, Andy
Williams and dozens of others. Tune into 101.1 F.M. on your
radio dial!
Monday, December 23 -- UPDATE from SVA's LAWYER re: SVA v. HETEROSEXUAL SCHNEPS' GAYRAGPAPER
Wednesday, December 25th, 2019 -- CHRISTMAS -- INTERNATIONAL HOLYDAY and HOLIDAY
Sunday, December 22 -- HAPPY CHANUKAH -- and SPIN the DREIDEL!
Friday, December 20 -- DARLENE LOVE PERFORMS HER HIT CHRISTMAS SONG on TV's"THE VIEW"
Darlene Love
performs
her timeless rock 'n' soul holiday hit song "Christmas, Baby
Please Come Home"! The original song was the lead single from the
most popular holiday album "A Christmas Gift For You" produced by
the legendary Phil Spector. After performing this
exciting song on "The Late Show" for thirty years, this is her fifth
year big production on "The View"! The song is played on the
radio every year! Darlene annually performs in the last
segment, so you can turn on the t.v. @ 11:45 a.m. This year
she will have a special guest singer again. The original 1963
record
album cover with Darlene photo is displayed at: www.StonewallVets.org/songsofStonewall-5.htm.
Post-event video of cool Darlene Love's awesome performance and with special hot guest singer Jason Derulo:
www.Ask.com/youtube?q=Darlene%20Love%20and%20Jason%20Derulo&v=hY7m5jjJ9mM&oLink
Wednesday, December 18 -- CHRISTMAS HITS and HOLIDAY SONGS on LITE-FM RADO at 106.7 F.M.
Every year, Lite-FM Radio features great
Christmas hits like "Christmas, Baby Please Come Home" and holiday
favorite songs such as "Sleigh Ride" and many singing artists popular
year after year in the original STONEWALL Club jukebox! Hear most
of the artists namely Darlene Love, Frank Sinatra, Ronnie Spector
& The Ronettes, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Connie
Francis, Dean 'Dino' Martin, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Bob B. Soxx
& The Blue Jeans, Barbra Streisand, Stevie Wonder, The Crystals,
The Beach Boys, Petula Clark, Elvis Presley, The McGuire Sisters, The
Temptations, et al. and, of course, Judy Garland with her timeless
"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"! For the actual
patrons of The STONEWALL
Club, it brings back and continues meaningful Gay club memories of
Christmastime!
Tune into 106.7 F.M. (24/7) and enjoy!
Friday, December 13 -- LEGAL DEP'T: S.V.A. vs. SCHLEPS MEDIA d.b.a. NYC GAYRAGPAPER
Currently, there is a legal motion pending before the NYC
Civil Court. The judge is obviously investigating the history,
the affidavits and the exhibits of the case. It involves the
plaintiff STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association's complaint charges of overwhelming prima facie evidence
of libel, defamation and slander against the legendary, non-profit and
now senior citizen organization S.V.A. and, therefore, a resultant loss
of revenue, intentionally caused by the scurrilous, vindictive and
mean-spirited article in the dwindling in readership and down-sized NYC Gay City News aka 'Gayragpaper' now "g.c.n." published by the irresponsible, hateful, yellow journalism of Schneps Communications against
the Stonewall veterans. The maliciousness was further exemplied
by its disrespectful timing with Schleps Media publishing the trash in print and on-line on
the eve of "WorldGayPride" and the SVA's "STONEWALL 50" anniversary! Stay tuned....
Thursday, December 12 -- REMEMBERING NYC MAYOR and S.V.A. HONORARY CHAIRPERSON ED KOCH
Wednesday, December 12 -- VINTAGE G.L.B.T. CLUB JUKEBOX SONGSTRESS BIRTHDAY: CONNIE FRANCIS!
Tuesday, December 10 -- BROADWAY CARES PRESENTS "RED BUCKET FOLLIES" SHOW
For more 411 on Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS special, annual, exciting production show "Red Bucket Follies", formerly known as "Gypsy of the Year", visit: https://BroadwayCares.org.
"December 7th" -- PEARL HARBOR REMEMRANCE DAY - the 2nd WORSE DATE in AMERICAN HISTORY!
Wednesday, December 4 -- NYS GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO'S BIRTHDAY DINNER at THE ESSEX HOUSE
The STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans' Association
has been participating in Andrew Mario Cuomo's public birthday blow-outs
since they started in 2005! Representing the S.V.A. are Willson Henderson, AnDre Christie and Palavi Malik. The band starts playing @ 6 p.m. To see a photo of Willson & AnDre
from that original and exciting 2005 A.M.C. event, visit '2005' at {revised link}: www.StonewallVets.org/AnDreChristie.htm.
Tuesday, December 3 -- "GIVING TUESDAY"... EXCEPT to the DESERVING, NON-PROFIT, VOLUNTEER S.V.A.
Some of the G.L.B.T. thankless organizations who are always
begging for monies, funds, grants, etc., etc. but not giving include,
but are not limited to: Manhattan LGBT Center (aka the mundanely called 'Center'),
which received an obscene one million dollars from Goo-gle to
supposedly preserve 'Stonewall stories' (wtf) and Stonewall
archives (S.V.A. has them) -- in other words, using our
"Stonewall" to windfall profits for them -- but outlandishly gave and
gives nada to the S.V.A.; the Stonewall Community Foundation (S.C.F.), constantly using
the SVA's namesake helps magnet big money for them but nada for the S.V.A.; the Seniors
Active in A Gay Environment (SAGE), allegedly so concerned about Gay
elders -- unless they're seniors who are Stonewall veterans!
That is hypocritical, disingenuous and ignorant of them.
To those ungrateful, selfish, prone to slander G.L.B.T. groups, we shout out: "Shame on
U!" The shame will not evaporate! In contrast, for groups and folks who want to support
and contribute to the S.V.A., its mission, its purposes, its goals, its
programs, and its out-standing people, visit: www.StonewallVets.org/membership/sponsorship.htm
Monday, December 2 -- RONNIE SPECTOR & THE RONETTES LIGHT UP LINCOLN CENTER, NYC
Lincoln Center, New
York has most appropriately chosen the legendary Ronnie Spector & The Ronettes headline their Christmas tree-lighting happening. Besides their group and her solo hits, Ronnie & The Ronettes are known for three big holiday songs such as "Sleigh Ride" on the famous and still popular Phil Spector Christmas Album.
These rock 'n' soul holiday songs are played on the radio every
December! Ceremony on the Dante Park Main Stage is emcee'd by
handsome Jawan 'Motown' Jackson,
former co-star of "Motown The Musical" and current co-star of "Ain't
Too Proud To Beg: The Temptations" on Broadway. The Christmas tree lights up @ 5:30 p.m. with a half-hour program. Location is on Broadway between West 63rd and 64th streets in
Manhattan. Read more
about this festive holiday event at: www.WintersEve.NYC/tree-lighting
Sunday, December 1, 2019 -- NATIONAL A.I.D.S. AWARENESS DAY
Saturday, November 30 -- STONEWALL REBELLION VETERANS' ASSOCIATION MONTHLY MEETING
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SVA's yearly Thanksgiving Weekend meeting and foods! What G.L.B.T. organizations would meet on a holiday weekend except the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association? None -- certainly not the paid organizations like 'Stonewall' rip-off and endless money S.A.G.E. (allegedly Seniors
Active in a Gay Environment)!
And, by 'regular' we intend not the 7-step, 10-step,
12-step, etc.
single-purpose groups. The "Bi-Laws" of the S.V.A. specify that
the organization can waive meeting on holiday weekends.
However, the
S.V.A. has so much 'unfinished business' from this year of
"Stonewall 50"! SVA-ers will be electing its 2020 S.V.A.
officers! At the other end of the burning candle, SVA-ers will be
voting on the best G.L.B.T. organization (e.g., HRC) and the worst LGBT group
(e.g., H.O.P.) of the year! Besides, there is a holiday weekend S.V.A. gathering
as it functions as
networking for the Stonewall vets and friends. We enjoy seeing
and
socializing with each other just as we did 50 years ago at the original
STONEWALL Club!
Encore Guest Speaker: New York City congressional candidate Lindsey Boylanfor
the 10th District -- the very district that the 1969 Stonewall
Rebellion happened, the very district that the S.V.A. commenced, and
the very district where this S.V.A. meeting takes place! It
is the very district in which the current exclusionary, scheming
and
rude inhabitant needs to be 86'd! At long last, the G.L.B.T.
community
and everybody else in the 10th CD has a Democratic alternative to "The
Nasty Natler" -- and one who can win! Visit: www.LindseyBoylan.com.
One of the timely topics is the reality that one
of the SVA's well-known, longtime supporters is running for U.S.
President: Michael R. Bloomberg.
Stonewall veterans such as Leigh McManus, Joani Sobel and Peter Rybart each share a special moment from the original
STONEWALL Club (1966 to 1969)! Nominations for 2020 S.V.A. officers is orchestrated by S.V.A. Vice-President Bert Coffman. Regarding public official communications, Ruthybird
reports on official correspondence from electeds such as US
Senator Corey Booker, Congressman Eliot Engel, NYS Assemblyman David
Weprin and NYC Councilwomen Helen Rosenthal and Carlina Rivera.
The S.V.A. also receives numerous, specific item email exchanges
with the offices of electeds and campaigns. Ramon Bellido
updates on S.V.A. sponsorships from public officials (that would
exclude hateful, lying creeps such as 'The Phat Man', Horey Johnsin,
The Schlub and Danny Dumm). Stonewall vet Tony Viera
informs on the legal status of the SVA's lawsuit against Schneps
Communications a.k.a. Schleps Media d.b.a. Gay City News aka Gay Sh*tty
News (as named by a former employee) a.k.a. GayRagPaper and now known
as liddle 'g.c.n.'! Today's holiday weekend event is
chaired by the SVA's indominatable director Willson L. Henderson.
As always, WLH has thoughtfully arranged for special Thanksgiving holiday foods.
Get2gether is at the historic and welcoming St. John's
Evangelical Lutheran
Church, under the divine guidance of Pastor Mark E. Erson, in good ole Greenwich Village It lightens up @ 3:15 p.m. www.StonewallVets.org/mainpage.htm.
Friday, November 29 -- REMEMBERING HANDSOME STONEWALL VET DAVID R. ALI (from THE BRONX)
Thursday, November 28 -- THANKSGIVING
AMERICAN NATIONAL HOLIDAY -- HAPPY THANKSGIVING to S.V.A.
STONEWALL REBELLION VETERANS and S.V.A. FRIENDS, SUPPORTERS and
ADVERTISERS
Monday, November 25 -- S.V.A. SUPPORTER ANNOUNCES for U.S. PRESIDENT: MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
In 2001, when surprise candidate Michael Rubens Bloomberg ("MRB")
announced his candidacy for New York City mayor, the one-and-only
G.L.B.T. organization to ultimately support him was the membership of
the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association ("S.V.A.")! Against
most odds, he won! The S.V.A. won! (Some of the local
jealous Gay political clubs have envied and slimed the Stinewall
vets ever since!) The S.V.A. was even prouder to support
Mayor MRB's re-election win in 2005 and proudest with his third
election as mayor of NYC in 2009! For more 411 about the
S.V.A. and former NYC Mayor MRB, visit: https://www.StonewallVets.org/MichaelBloomberg.htm.
Sunday, November 24 -- STONEWALL VET BIRTHDAY: QUEEN ALLYSON ANN ALLANTE
The SVA's public events spokesperson Queen Allyson Allante is best known as the founder and longtime president of the Imperial QUEENS & Kings of Greater New York.
Besides being interviewed with an on-screen 'testimonial' in the
original "Stonewall" movie released in 1996, Queen Allyson will be
shown in several photos in the definitive documentary "Inside STONEWALL!" to be released in early 2020. For much more 411, great photographs and media articles on Queen Allyson, see: https://www.StonewallVets.org/QueenAllyson.htm
Friday, November 22 -- REMEBERING the LOSS of 35th U.S. PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Thursday, November 21 -- S.V.A. VS. SCHLEPS-OWNED GAYRAGPAPER (NOW 'g.c.n.') in NYC CIVIL COURT, ROUND 3
The slanderous and shameful Schneps Communications also known as Schleps Media which earlier this year got stuck in a take-all-or-nothing purchase deal with the dubious Gay City News aka Gay Sh*tty News aka Gayragpaper --
now
downplayed to a rebranded invisible-style name as low-cased 'g.c.n' --
is ordered to
appear in Court for 'round 3'! Isn't there a vitamin store with
the name G.C.N.? The Gayragpaper is being legally sued (once
again) by the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association
for slander, loss of reveue, sleaze, libel, interference with business,
slime, defamation, smear, etc.! Representing the S.V.A. are
appropriately three Stonewall vets Willson Henderson, Tony Viera and Ramon Bellido -- plus, if he can make it there in time back from Philly, AnDre Christie. The
gavel bangs down at a Civil Court of the City of New York @ 2 p.m.!
Monday, November 17 -- S.V.A.
RESPONDS to SCHNEPS MEDIA d.b.a. GAY CITY NEWS a.k.a. GAY SH*TTY
NEWS NOW little g.c.n.'s STUPID ATTEMPT to 'DISMISS the
LAWSUIT' by S.V.A. vs. GAYRAGPAPER
The two-page diatribe loaded with outrageous
misrepresentatations, noxious irrelevancies and outright lies was
mailed to the NYC Civil Court -- and to the libeled and victimized
S.V.A. -- in a deperate and quite frankly, stupid, attempt to get the
lawsuit against Schleps Communications aka Schleps Media dba Gay City News
dismissed! Ha-ha-ho! The vindictive missile was shamefully
composed by the Gayragpaper's so-called editor-in-chief Paul D. Schindler aka Paula Palisades no doubt with the deliriously, factually-challenged Druncan Ozburn
"the pregnant-looking, lonely goil from 6th Avenue (in Brooklyn) via a
Roxbury-type section of Massatusets"! Wash that congenital
liar's filthy mouth out with Ivory soap! Pathetic that
this is the year of "STONEWALL-50"! In a realistic one word:
Shameful!
Friday, November 15 -- ORIGINAL STONEWALL JUKEBOX #1 SONGSTRESS: PETULA CLARK @ 87!
Sunday, November 10 -- ROLAND EMMERICH MOVIE DIRECTOR and S.V.A. SUPPORTER BIRTHDAY in HOLLYWOOD on WEEKEND of HIS WORLD WAR II FILM "MIDWAY"
Saturday, November 9 -- STONEWALL REBELLION VETERAN BIRTHDAY: JITTERS GREENFIELD of NJ
Friday, November 8 -- "STONEWALL" MOVIE DIRECTOR ROLAND EMMERICH'S NEWEST and EXCITING HISTORIC FILM: "MIDWAY!"
Appropriately, the new blockbuster movie "MIDWAY!"
about a monumental military battle in World War II, is released on
Veterans' Weekend! The acclaimed and openly-Gay director Roland Emmerich
is also the determined and diligent director of "Independence Day", "The Patriot",
"White House Down", "The Day After Tomorrow" and the definitive
depiction of the Stonewall Era and the Stonewall Rebellion in any media, the film "STONEWALL!". See a literally bombastic "MIDWAY!" film promotion 'trailer' at: www.Ask.com/YouTube?o=0&l=dir&qo=serpSearchTopBox&q=Midway+new+movie. For "MIDWAY!" movie synopsis, plot and cast: www.IMDB.com/title/tt6924650/mediaviewer/rm285576705.
Update: S.V.A. supporter Roland Emmerich's newset movie "MIDWAY" opened for the weekdnd in #1 position!
Thursday, November 7 -- COLD CASE T.V. SHOW ENCORE: "BEST FRIENDS" (aka SECRET GAY LOVERS)
Voted by viewers as one of their most popular episodes, this much-requested presentation of the popular "Cold Case" television show is entitled 'Best Friends',
a code word then for secret Gay lovers. It is an eye-opening
and emotional
revelation saga of the anti-Gay times and the necessarily closeted
people.
This is the coldest -- 70-plus years -- set episode of "Cold Case";
it takes place
during the overlapping Prohibition Era and the Depression Era. This episode
is unique, too, as their only show without an uncovered
murderer at its conclusion. Instead, a 'female human remains' mystery is
solved. Also unique is a real-life person is portrayed: bisexual Billie Holiday singing in a Philadelpha speak-easy. Piper Laurie,
a 3-time Academy Award nominee (now 87 in real life), is
so convincing in her revealing 'old Rose' Collins character.
While denying a long-ago lesbian love relationship, Rose, who is now a great grandmother states:
"If I was the lover of that girl Billie in the truck crash, I
wouldn't be here". The knowing detective Lilly Rush played superbly by Kathryn Morris observes: "And, yet, Rose, here you are!" Samantha Streets
perfectly portrays the originally straight Rose in a sensitive
and captivating approach who realizes and embraces
her forbidden but true love! Tessa Thompson,
as young, foxy and male personna Billie Ducette in an interracial
Gay love affair, had her career launched from this out-standing
performance. It was the girls' plan to move to New York City where they would be accepted!
Marla Gibbs
plays a
spicey adult lesbian of a younger character Lil' Georgie.
The finale,
taking place in modern day Central Park, NY is extraordinary and
inspiring for all Gay people and others! "Best
Friends" won a GLAAD media award! Show airs on Start T.V. @ 3
p.m. See an enticing film clip montage of 'Best Friends' at:
www.Bing.com/videos/search?q=Cold+Case+TV+show+episode+Best+Friends&view=detail
Wednesday, November 6 -- LAMBDA DEMOCRATS SHAMEFULLY ENDORSE "THE NATLER'
Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn aka Lying Ingrate Dems ("LID") shamefully yet expectedly endorses Jerrold Nadler
aka The Natler for the NYC 10th District Congress (West Manhattan and
Brooklyn West) in next year's Primary Election! LID could care
less what the Stonewall veterans knows and believes.
Politically-minded G.L.B.T. groups working together instead of
apart is obliterated by self-servers such as LID. It is
an indisputable fact that the shameful liar The Natler
has been "stealing Stonewall" for years to benefit himself with Gay
volunteer$, Gay donor$ and Gay vote$ at the expense of the
allegedly Gay icons: members of the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association. Natler is the proven liar who falsely claims that the Stonewall Monument Memorial
to replace the Sheridan Triangle across from The STONEWALL Club was his
idea! The reality is it was the SVA's project as proposed by
Willson Henderson and designed by Dahn Huni.
The S.V.A. has the confirming documents, the artistic design and
public official letters from 20 years ago supporting and thanking the
STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association! Besides U.S. Senator
Daniel Moynihan, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, NYC Mayor Rudy
Giuliani, Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger and Public
Advocate Marc Green, one of the praise letters was from... you guessed
it: The Natler! See evidentiary letter to S.V.A. at: www.StonewallVets.org/JerroldNadler.htm.
FYI, the LID's current head Jared Arader and treasurer Dan
Tietz are known fabricators! We know from eyewitnesses that
they ignorantly and shamefully slander the S.V.A.
Neither has been to an S.V.A. meeting or conference yet defame
the heroic Stonewall veterans for LID's predatory efforts of "Stealing
Stonewall"! The members of the S.V.A. proudly supports the
intelligent, respectful, inclusive and honest opponent to The Natler:
Lindsey Boylan. She is the SVA's special guest speaker this month! View Lindsey's encouraging website at: www.LindseyBoylan.com.
Tuesday, November 5 -- AMERICAN ELECTION DAY
Thursday, October 31st -- NYC 46th ANNUAL GREENWICH VILLAGE HALLOWEEN PARADE
The "46th Annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade"
will feature the most elaborate Halloween costumes and creative
characters in the World! There are awesome get-ups, marching
bands and bigger than life-size puppets! There is the famous Michael Jackson Dancers performing
the Halloween theme #1 hit song "Thriller"
while dancing up the avenue and dressed up as zombies like
the original MJ music video! The wildly exciting parade in
Manhattan, NYC is on
Avenue of the Americas (aka Sixth Avenue) starting in the SoHo area at
Spring Street and Prince Street blasts off @ 7 p.m. The
extravaganza travels up to 23rd Street in Chelsea.
Over 50,000 artistically attired revelers are in the parade plus a
million spectators! New York One News TV telecasts the Halloween
Parade 'live'! For much more 411, visit: https://Halloween-NYC.com.
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Saturday, October 26, 2019 -- STONEWALL REBELLION VETERANS
ASSOCIATION MONTHLY MEETING HOSTED
by WILLSON HENDERSON
October is Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender History Month and there
is, objectively and obviously, no more appropriate G.L.B.T. group to be
in the company of and to support than the historic STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association! The ultra-historic photograph above is prima facie
evidence of the S.V.A. making history, once again! The humongous
gathering for worldwide "STONEWALL-25" of over one million people in
Central Park in New York City was the largest in G.L.B.T. his/herstory! At the
mic is Queen Allyson Allante of the Imperial QUEENS of NYC and the S.V.A.!
New York City Councilwoman Carlina L. Rivera is represented by her special assistant Irak Cehinski
to present a City Council Citation to the S.V.A. for "Stonewall 50". The
brass-framed, glass-enclosed, ribbon-adorned, parchment document
"gratefully honors" the STONWALL Rebellion Veterans Association!
The SVA's get2gether introduces a
U.S. Congressional Candidate
for a Manhattan and some crucial sections of
Brooklyn district! She marched in the New York City G.L.B.T.
Pride
Parade and, unlike the exclusionary incumbent, the
challenger was in communication with the S.V.A. for "Stonewall-50"!
All of the S.V.A. members
and thousands in this district want to
'86' the over-done inhabitant.
The diss-respectful elected rudely failed to contact the S.V.A. for its 50th anniversary!
Yet the shameful hypocrite had the
chutzpah to molest Gay Pride! The members
and sponsors of the politically savvy S.V.A. typically
have
the winner! It
helps when your history of supporters is a "who's who"
and your website has millions of visits
annually!
This month's New York City Council member guest speaker is Councilwoman Helen A. Rosenthal
from the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Coincidentally, she lives
in the same condominium high-rise that the SVA's director Willson L. Henderson
("WLH") used to live in (until he sold it): The Bromley. As an
original owner, WLH bought
there first! For several years, the famous 1969 "Stonewall Car"
was garaged at The Bromley. How did Willson find out about
The Bromley? Clue: "Bella!" Answer: Harvey Fierstein!
(You won't read any of those facts in the Schleps-owned NYC
Gayragpaper!)
Special appearance by the SVA's talented and wonderful public relationist Leticia M. Remauro.
She will update the "S/W-50" public relations for the S.V.A.
Leticia is also the adminstrator of the popular S.V.A. on
FaceBook. View the webfile at: www.FaceBook.com/SVANYC. Many NYC-ers know Leticia from seeing her regularly on the New York One T.V. News political show "Inside City Hall".
Happy Halloween!!
There's no better place to be on the Halloween weekend than in
Greenwich Village, New York City -- especially on Halloween-all-year-round
Christopher Street! On the occasion of Halloween, the S.V.A. will provide special culinary
"treats"
-- and no "tricks" (e.g., the forbidden fruit NYC Gayragpaper)!
Divine meeting is at the historic St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Founders' Conference Room at 81
Christopher Street just off Seventh Avenue in Greenwich Village in
Manhattan, NYC. It's a stone's throw from the #1 subway train. At 3:15 p.m., the S.V.A. gathering crypt-kicks!
Saturday, October 19 -- NEW "STONEWALL ERA" BOOK INTERVIEWS
A new "Stonewall Era" book is in the works! The first interviewee for this new G.L.B.T. book project is appropriately Willson Henderson, the founder and director of the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Assoication!
This comprehensive interview, which will be legally
taped -- unlike the dirty, sneaky tricks of the late David "Creepy"
Carter from Georgia and his bombed book the so-called
"Stonewall: The Uprising That Sparked" -- happens at Rosso's
appropriately on Greenwich Avenue @ 4 p.m. You
won't read about this interesting G.L.B.T. history and
realities, nor the current revisionism, of Gay life spanning a
half century in
the heterosexually-owned NYC Gay-ragpaper!
Saturday, October 19 -- S.V.A. BIRTHDAY: PATTI STONE from LI and in FLORIDA
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Wednesday, October 16 -- BIRTHDAY BASH for SVA'S HONORARY FEMALE CHAIRPERSON NY STATE SENATOR DYANE SAVINO
New York State Senator Dyane Jean Savino is
the honorary female chairperson of the STONEWALL Veterans' Association!
Dyane's birthday bash is held tonight at the famous The Wooly in Manhattan!
The historic bar and grand lounge is named after the landmark Woolworth
Building. Said building was once the tallest building in New
York. Proudly representing the S.V.A. and a scheduled speaker is Willson Henderson. Rep'ing PRIDE Democrats of NYC is Steven Gradman.
Besides the gormet food on silver trays throughout the party, there is a
special huge birthday cake presentation for Dyane! Event lights
up @ 6:30 p.m. and parties with disc-jockeyed music -- including "Songs of the Original STONEWALL Club Jukebox" until 9 p.m.
Friday, October 11 -- NATIONAL GAY COMING OUT DAY
This is the 31st annual "National Coming Out Gay Day"! Although this "outin'"
is, of course, rudimentarily inspired by the 1969 Stonewall
Rebellion, that reality is rarely mentioned anymore. The
uprising, staged by Gay boys and Gay girls and their straight friends
was the first "coming out" event. That is one of the true
meanings of "Stonewall"!
Thursday, October 10 -- STONEWALL VETERANS ASSOCIATION SUES NYC GAYRAGPAPER, COURT HEARING, PART 2
The lawsuit launched by the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association
is for libel, defamation, slander, interference with the rights of
an organization and loss of revenue. The named defendant is Schneps Communications aka Schleps Media as they now own the Gay City News aka Gayragpaper now 'g.c.n.'
-- the heterosexual owners' shady strategy to conceal the fact that
it is a GAY paper. The non-Gay Schleps must be ashamed of the word GAY! The S.V.A. is represented by its director Willson Henderson, board of directors member Ramon Bellido and executive committee member Tony Viera. Gavel strikes @ 2 p.m.
Thursday, October 10 -- STONEWALL VET BIRTHDAY: ANTONIO 'TONY' VIERA of THE BRONX
Saturday, October 5 -- BIRTHDAY
of WILLSON L. HENDERSON, S.V.A. FOUNDER (1969) and the 'STONEWALL'
CONSULTANT on BOTH "STONEWALL!" MOVIES (1994 and 2015) and "INSIDE
STONEWALL" DOCUMENTARY (2019)
Friday, October 4 -- GAYRAGPAPER's HETEROSEXUAL OWNER VICKI SUE SCHNEPS BUYS "A.M. NEW YORK" NEWSPAPER
This newset acquisition A.M. New York -- after Schneps Communication got stuck with the NYC Gayragpaper in a deal earlier this year -- now gives Schleps Media another outlet to libel, defame and slander plus personal attacks and lies! Did they advise seller Newsday Media Group that
they have at least one (with another pending) New York
City civil lawsuit against them?
It's required to do so by law! Within a few days it was
widely reported that the Schleps fired several new employees -- folks
who did their all for the A.M. New York!
Thursday, October 3 -- SPECIAL "DOUBLE STONEWALL" SUPER SUPPER POW-WOW at ROSSO'S RESTAURANT @ 5:15 p.m. until 7:30 p.m.
October 2019 -- GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL and TRANSGENDER (G.L.B.T.) HISTORY MONTH
Saturday, September 28 -- STONEWALL REBELLION VETERANS' ASSOCIATION MONTHLY MEETING
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The STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association's
"See U In September" (an original 1966 Stonewall Club jukebox
song) meeting frames the finale segment of their milestone
"STONEWALL
50" year!
Guest Speakers: NYC Councilwoman Carlina L. Rivera
(nearby East Village and Lower East Side). Topics include
post-Stonewall 50 and keeping the accolades for and concerns of the
senior citizen Stonewall veterans on-going after the confetti has
stopped flowing! And special guest speaker is NYC Councilwoman Elizabeth M. Crowley of
Queens attending with one of her sons! Besides the issues of the
S.V.A., she explians her plans as a candidate for Queens Borough
President. (That race is particularly relevant to the
Stonewall vets as one of her job-killer opponents is an S.V.A.
defamer.) The S.V.A. provides quality foods for members.
Attendees may bring their
favourite beverages. S.V.A. meeting is in a rented
room the
Manhattan LGBT Community Centre starts on-time @ 3:15 p.m.
Saturday, September 28 -- BIRTHDAY CHEER to SVA's HONORARY FEMALE CHAIRPERSON NYS SENATOR DYANE J. SAVINO
Friday, September 27 -- STONEWALL 50: "INSIDE STONEWALL!" DOCUMENTARY PREMIERS on T.V.
{To be rescheduled when final distribution deal is completed....} Premiere of the much-anticipated and timely "Inside STONEWALL!"
is re-scheduled for this evening! Continuing
with the monumental occasion of the 50th anniversary of the
Stonewall Rebellion (it wasn't a 'riot'), this is the long-awaited,
investigative, definitive documentary film "Inside STONEWALL!".
It provides for the first time a complete and unique look at the 1969 Stonewall
Uprising and its aftermath from both the perspectives of the New York City Police Department ("NYCPD") 'Stonewall cops' and the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association ("S.V.A.")
'Stonewall vets' and some others including a respected historian
-- not the longtime SVA-banned liar David 'Creepy' Carter! The
eyewitness accounts from inside -- and
outside -- of The STONEWALL Club on
Friday night, June 27th, 1969 into the early morning hours of June
28th, in this film are intensely interesting and really
revealing! They feature several actual 'Stonewall veterans'
(Willson,
Allyson, Bert, Rusty, David S., Tony V., et al.) and
three original 'Stonewall cops' (Frankie, Richie and Vinny) in their
first-ever filmed "Stonewall" interviews! Besides the S.V.A.,
the documentary producers collaborated with two New York City
police
organizations -- no, not the Gay Officers' Action League. Thus,
never-before police department testimonials, documents and
images have been
unearthed! Highlight: A glossy,
black-and-white, full-length,
nightime police photo during the five-night Stonewall Rebellion shows a
known Stonewall veteran book-ended by two uniformed NYCPD
officers -- each tugging on an arm of the captured S/W-vet,
taking the person away while the person is struggling to get
free!
Special invitations shall be
distributed for the
preview of "Inside STONEWALL!"
to all 'veterans' of the Stonewall events, SVA-supportive public
officials (not the smear
campaigners like The Natler, Ruben Jr., The Shlub or Horey J.) and various
reputable media (not the dubious defendants Gay City News
also known as the Gayragpaper now 'g.c.n.'). After the
documentary's preview,
there will be a grand, yet private, Hudson Blue Productions
celebratory deluxe dinner, delightful drinx and delicioius desserts --
plus devilish 'dishes'! Don't fasten your seatbelts!
Sunday, September 22 -- BROADWAY CARES / EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS PRESENTS ITS "33rd ANNUAL FLEA MARKET & AUCTION"
This Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS
("BC/EFA") annual outdoor "Flea Market & Auction" event is always worthwhile,
exciting and fun! BCEFA: "Your Broadway treasure hunt starts and ends with this happening! Meet
your favorite stars, seek out one-of-a-kind theatrical memorabilia and
celebrate your love of all things Broadway!"
The market and auction take place in the heart of Broadway's
theatre district at landmark Shubert Alley (trust us, not
just an alley) at Broadway between West 44th and 45th streets from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. For more 411 on the Broadway Cares "Flea Market & Auction", please visit: BroadwayCares.org.
Friday, September 20 -- SCREEN ACTORS GUILD PRESENTS "A CONVERSATION with LEGENDARY SINGER DARLENE LOVE"
The Screen Actors Guild ("SAG") premieres its new Legends Series with "A Conversation with Darlene Love"! Film clips are shown of Darlene Love
co-starring in the Academy Award-winning documentary "Twenty Feet from
Stardom", her induction acceptance speech at the "Rock & Roll
Hall-of-Fame" and co-starring in all four "Lethal Weapon" movies!
Proudly representing the S.V.A. is its founder Willson L. Henderson and his guest Eldon L. Johnson,
the SVA's Youth-4-SVA organizer. (To be invited and reservation
confirmed, the person must be a SAG member and in great standing.
It also allows one guest.) Venue is the
state-of-the-art Robin Williams S.A.G. Film Center and Theatre in the
Clinton section of Manhattan, NY. Curtains up @ 7 p.m.
Thursday, September 19 -- IN MEMORIAM TRANSITION: CHRISTINE GORDON in FLORIDA at AGE 57
Monday, September 16 -- S.V.A. BIRTHDAY: CARL J. KELLER, JR. of CONNECTICUT
Thursday, September 12 -- S.V.A. BIRTHDAY: RAMON F. BELLIDO of SPANISH HARLEM
Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 -- TRAGIC 18th ANNIVERSARY of the 2001 EXTREMIST ISLAMIC TERRORIST ATTACKS in NEW YORK, VIRGINIA and PENNSYLVANIA!!!!
In Manhattan, New York City, where the great majority of the victims from the crazed and cowardly terrorist murders occurred, the "18th Annual September 11th, 2001 Tribute"
is commemorated at the World Trade Center site starting @ 8:15 a.m.
Public officials participating include former NYC mayor and chief
September 11th official-in-charge and tireless overseer Rudy W. Giuliani and former mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, former NYS governor George E. Pataki, in office and involved in the September 11th recovery, and current governor Andrew M. Cuomo, plus NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams,
among other New York electeds. The tremendous, 3 1/2 hour
tribute service, including the poignant "reading of the names of
victims", is telecast on every major television network.
The main messages from the testimonials are: "never forget", "stop the hate" and "God bless America"!
Tuesday, September 10 -- ONE MONTH UNTIL NYC GAYRAGPAPER IS SUMMONED to COURT -- AGAIN
Terrorism by libel, defamation, slander,
truth-deprivation and personal attacks are some of the un-journalistic
tactics of the Schneps Media via its Gay City News aka Gayragpaper now downgraded to g.c.n. Rather than admit their perennial attacks on the legendary, non-profit, G.L.B.T. civil rights organization, the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association
("S.V.A."), and remove their printed trash articles intended to stir
reputation terror, the Gayragpaper is allowed by Schleps Communications
News Group (one iof the publisher's other names) to continue to instill harm on a daily, round-the-clock basis at a
place that can serve as a noxious cesspool: the internet! With
all of the overwhelming evidence by the poison pen of the dubious Druncan Ozborn article itself, lettuce see on October 10th ("10/10") what the civil court concludes!
Saturday, September 7 -- SVA's WILLSON HENDERSON MARCHES in NYC LABOR DAY PARADE
No, he wasn't in the NYC Labor Day Parade with the S.V.A.! Willson L. Henderson ("WLH") marched with a labor organization that he has been a member of for over forty years: Screen Actors Guild
("SAG")! Why don't you ever read that fact (among endless others)
in the biased Gayragpaper? Clearly, because they do not want you
to know the real Willson! WLH also had an expected reunion in the
parade with longtime S.V.A. supporter NYS Governor Andrew M. Cuomo! Now, as a 'senior citizen', WLH's bi-annual membership dues are paid for by SAG!
Monday, September 2 -- AMERICAN LABOR DAY (HOLIDAY)
Saturday, August 31 -- SVA'S MONTHLY MEETING with STONEWALL UPRISING VETERANS at MANHATTAN LGBT COMMUNITY CENTRE
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This second Summer meeting of the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association is
on the 5th Saturday this month! It is also an exception as
it happens on a holiday weekend: Labor Day. That's the real
dedication of the S.V.A. -- even after over a half-century! The
S.V.A. presents lively discussions, planning and fun!
Meeting is captained by Willson L. Henderson and co-captained by several other selfless Stonewall veterans! Molly Bennett Aitken
reports on her outreach efforts to 'stop the hate; stop the lies'
within some of the local G.L.B.T. organizations! (They know who
they are.) Joni 'JC' Sobel updates current 'veterans of Stonewall' registered with the S.V.A. Bert Coffman
presents communiucations with various responsible public officials not
the three-faced creeps. (They know who they are.) Jitters Greenfield gives the "Jersey Report". Ramon Bellido
will lettuce know about the first (but surely not the last) day in NYC
civil court versus the libelous liars at the 'fake news' NYC Gayragpaper now aka g.c.n. propped up
by Schneps Communications aka Schleps Media. Tony Viera
reveals the newest details on the definitive documentary "Inside
STONEWALL!".
The S.V.A. serves up the quality foods; if desired, you bring your
favorite beverages. The SVA's still ~hot~ (some say hotter than ever)
general manager AnDre Christie
greets folks at the door with his glowing smile and.......!
AnDre favors those who contribute to the non-profit,
all-volunteer S.V.A. not those who stiff it! The executive committee-style,
non-sequitar, family-flavored meeting at the centrally air-conditioned Manhattan LGBT
Community Centre at 212 West 13th Street between Greenwich Avenue and Seventh Avenue lights
up @ 3:15 p.m.
Friday, August 30 -- WILLSON HENDERSON DEFENDS "STONEWALL" -- and HIMSELF!
Willson Lee Henderson ("WLH"), the chief founder and elected director of the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association ("SVA"), has a comprehensive story and character study in The New York Times.
It's wonderful to read of Gay icons mentioned from before, during
and after the Stonewall Era such as Joan Crawford, Elizabeth
Taylor and Lana Turner and, of course, Judy Garland! Willson
mentions Stonewall veterans, his mother, boyfriend and two
cats. The NYX shows a photo of WLH and the blue 1969 convertible
"Stonewall Car". Because of the continued popularity of the
investigative, informative and
interesting WLH article, the S.V.A. is re-publishing it through the
SVA's various formats and expansive S.R.V.A. Network.
www.NYTimes.com/2015/06/07/NYRegion/a-Defender-of-Stonewall-and-Himself.html
Wednesday, August 21 -- S.V.A. MEETING with N.Y.C. CONGRESSMEMBER (not THE NATLER) @ 2 p.m.
Monday, August 12 -- PRIVATE SHOWING of "INSIDE STONEWALL!" DOCUMENTARY
One of the "Inside STONEWALL!" documentary producers hosted a private showing with only a handful of
people. In the film, there are alternating and compelling interviews with several Stonewall vets of the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association
and a couple of others. Each of the SVAers' stories are
anchored in the basic facts yet each person's experiences are
nonetheless different. Think: survivors of The Titanic! Besides the S/W vets, there is the
never-before revealing information obtained from a
few original NYCPD Sixth Precinct "Stonewall cops" -- plus a current
prominent NYCPD official!
The producers and the researchers on this definitive "Stonewall 50"
project are so professional, informed and savvy that they knew exactly who was "a
must to avoid"! A final deal in the works has not been consumated to announce now what network and when for the showing of "Inside STONEWALL!".
Thursday, August 8 -- STONEWALL
VETS ASSN. LIBEL LAWSUIT in COURT vs. SCHNEPS PUBLICATIONS aka SCHLEPS
MEDIA dba GAY CITY NEWS aka GAYRAGPAPER now g.c.n.
This STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association
lawsuit for libel, defamation and slander vomits from
the factually-flawed and flame-throwing 'story' disrespectfully in time
for WorldGayPride and "Stonewall 50" by the
dubious and delusional Druncan Ozburn. The S.V.A. has the prima facie evidence!
The only socially curious question for the courtroom is whether the
real trash publisher Vicky Sue Schnepersohn of Schleps Media show up?
For every one photo she has with former Mayor Bloomberg, as
shown on her Schneps Communications website, both the SVA's founder Willson
Henderson and the SVA's general manager AnDre Christie each have ten! Update: Civil court case to be continued at the adjourned date....
Monday, August 5 -- ORIGINAL STONEWALL JUKEBOX SUPERSTARS CONCERT: MICK JAGGER & THE ROLLING STONES
This grrreat (and sold-out) Mick Jagger & The Rolling Stones("MJ&TRS")
concert was held across the Hudson River in the
Meadowlands in New Jersey! The rock 'n' roll boys opened the
dynamic show with an popular original STONEWALL Club jukebox song:
"Jumpin' Jack Flash" from 1968. Among many worldwide
#1 songs,
MJ&TRS did a rousing rendition of their #1 song form the Summer of
1969 in the Stonewall jukebox: "Honky Tonk Women".
Interestingly, at that time 'honky tonk women' included drag
queens -- and it still does! Other Stonewall
jukebox songs that MJ&TRS performed were "Mother's Little
Helper" (1966), "Ruby Tuesday" (1967) and the appropriately-named
"She's A Rainbow" (1968). Rogers 'Ro-Ro' Huntana
headed up the enthusiastic S.V.A. contingency. MJ&TRS
concluded the high-energy concert with their ultimate #1 hit "(I
Can't Get No) Satisfaction"!
Friday, August 2 -- S.V.A. SUPPER MEETING with CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE for MANHATTAN (and PARTS of BROOKLYN) at ROSSO'S @ 5 p.m.
Thursday, August 1 -- GAYRAGPAPER
REPORTS on G.O.A.L. POLICE OFFICER SLANDER SUIT INVOLVING PEDOPHILIA BUT FAILS to REPORT on
SLANDER SUIT AGAINST THEM as SCHNEPS MEDIA dba GAY CITY
NEWS by the S.V.A.!
Tuesday, July 30 -- ONE MONTH SINCE HERITAGE OF SHAME SH*T on the STONEWALL VETS
Shamefully, it has been exactly one month since the so-called Heritage of Pride also known as 'Heritage of Shame', the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (G.L.B.T.) Pride and parade organizers, attracted million$
of people, over 150,000 marcher$, over 700 group$ (over 700 hefty fees),
over 100 float$ (over 100 pricey fees) and additionally raking in
million$ of corporate dollar$ -- all unquestionably as a result of what
the legendary 'veterans' of the original STONEWALL Club police raids
and the historic Stonewall Rebellion did a half-century ago -- and yet after doing
nothing before or during Pride Month for the STONEWALL Veterans' Association, the HOP aka H.O.S. still has not made
apologies (or ecen endless excuses) much less r-e-s-p-e-c-t, remunerations or
amens one month later....... {to be continued}
Saturday, July 27 -- STONEWALL VETERANS ASSOCIATION: MONTHLY MEETING, POST-PRIDE REVIEW and S.V.A. ANNIVERSARY PARTY IGNITES @ 3:15 p.m.
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The STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association holds its annual post-Gay Pride Month meeting and, this year, its 50th anniversary celebration! It is championed by the SVA's elected director Willson L. Henderson.
Hopefully, some of the many alleged "Stonewall veterans"
who popped up on different television programs (typically when a
S.V.A. Stonewall vet wasn't available) and in various newspapers will
identify and unify with and join the established "S/W Vetz" S.V.A.
organization and
attend this meeting with their former original Stonewall Club patrons
and, now, colleagues! S/W vet Molly B. Aitken,
down from Altol, Massachusetts, analyzes the recent two NYC Gay
Pride marches phenomenon and how both fell shamefully short for
actually honoring "STONEWALL 50" and why there is 'Pride':
Veterans of the four years of The Stonewall Club raids and five
nights of the Stonewall Rebellion!! Updates on the forthcoming, informative
and revealing documentary "Inside Stonewall!" and related events are provided by Tony Viera,
one of several S/W vets who is seen in the film with a Stonewall
Rebellion interview. Reports from out-going S.V.A.
vice-presidents R. Bert Coffman and Rusty B. Rose
on the renewed comradery of the S.V.A.
Correspondence updates from public officials, headlined by
the specially-crafted proclamation from NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo and
the Stonewall 50 citation form Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams
are reported by
Joni Sobel. As voted unanimously at the S.V.A.
conference, today is the rescheduled S.V.A. Election of its next president
and two new vice-presidents. When is 'WorldGayPride'
going to deliver some of their multitudinal and widespread "S/W-50" memorabilia
that reads "STONEWALL 50" to the folks from the original STONEWALL Club who created the 'Pride'?
WorldGayShame's
ungratefulness and rudeness is obviously endless! Heritage of Pride/Shame has
systematically hawked their promotional "S/W-50"
merchandise to
everyone -- including local, heterosexual, anti-Gay, muslim
merchants on
Christopher Street -- except the Stonewall vets! Lastly and leastly is the 411 on the pending legal court case "S.V.A. vs. Schneps Media dba Gay City News aka Gayragpaper now g.c.n."! SVA's general manager AnDre M. Christie, assisted by boardmember Ramon Bellido, greets folks and collects dues and donations at the door! The SVA's meeting commences as always @
3:15 p.m. and, as ever, on time! Now, it's on to "Stonewall 51"!
Thursday, July 25 -- S.V.A. BIRTHDAY: MOLLY BENNETT AITKEN of MASSACHUSETTS
As a special treat for the S.V.A., Executive Committee member Miss Molly B is driving down from Massachusetts in her new Escalade! She will co-chair the S.V.A. get2gether with SVA's Willson Henderson
on Saturday. Molly B shall celebrate her 70-something birthday
with fellow Stonewallers after the happening at RossoPomoDoro
Restaurant! To see Molly with S.V.A. two decades ago: www.StonewallVets.org/parade/SW-29.htm.
Tuesday, July 23 -- REMEMBERING N.Y.C. COUNCILMAN JAMES E. 'JED' DAVIS, KILLED in CITY HALL
The late and great New York City Councilman James E. Davis,
also affectionately known as 'Jed', from Brooklyn, NY died at the
hands of a crazed, gun-carrying, Gay killer in New York City Hall in
Manhattan, NY on July 23, 2013.
Jed was an active, outspoken and proud honorary member of
the S.V.A. For more 411 regarding Jed Davis and his known
feelings for his
beloved STONEWALL Veterans' Association, please view:
www.StonewallVets.org/JamesDavis.htm.
Saturday, July 20 -- THEME SONG: "HEAT WAVE" by MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS
This American nationwide 3-day "Heatwave" included Friday
the 19th and Sunday the 21st. To learn more about Motown girl
group Martha Reeves & The Vandellas and their famous #1 song "Heat
Wave", visit: www.StonewallVets.org/songsofStonewall-7.htm
Wednesday, July 17 -- "STONEWALLING" DEMOCRAT CLUB DUPES the BRONX DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
Thursday, July 11, 2019 -- 50th ANNIVERSARY of the STONEWALL REBELLION VETERANS ASSOCIATION!
Wednesday, July 10 --- NEW YORK CITY "SALUTE to the CHAMPIONS" - NO, NOT the STONEWALL VETERANS
The City of New York literally rolled out the red carpet and
held a parade for the U.S. Women's Soccer Team! Yet, just ten
days prior, the City of New York did absolutely nothing for the
legendary STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association'team',
the folks who were the torch in launching the largest civil rights
movement in the history of the World! The rude failure flies in
the face of the reality that the economic effects of the 1969 Stonewall
Rebellion continue to bring millions and millions of dollars into the
City of New
York year-round! Each member of the women's soccer team
were given "The Keys to the City"! The S.V.A.
collectively were not even given the key to a subway bathroom!
They were not given a cost-free note much less a non-profit group
contribution. This NYC Administration has enough self-promoting
gays and lesbians on staff to know better. When it comes to the
supposed G.L.B.T. "heroes", they should rely on the paper of
record The New York Times not the slander sheet NYC Gayragpaper!
Monday, July 8 -- GOVERNOR CUOMO's OFFICE DELIVERS ORIGINAL PROCLAMATIONS to S.V.A.
Friday, "The 5th of July" -- S.V.A. FILES LAWSUIT vs. GAY CITY NEWS aka GAYRAGPAPER now g.c.n.
The "Gay City News" a.k.a. the Gayragpaper and
now down-playing the 'Gay' by using the mundane and lower-cased (we
agree, they are low) "g.c.n." -- embarassingly the only G.L.B.T.
newspaper in all of New York City --
is hereby legally sued... again! This time the shameful
heterosexual owners and smut publishers, mama Victoria Sue Schneps and sonny Joshua Schleps, doing business as Schneps Communications, Inc. aka Schleps Media,
LLC.
As defendants, they are charged with: (1) libel; (2)
defamation; (3) loss of
revenue to a registered non-profit organization; (4) slander; and (5)
character assassination, among
other offenses.... The S.V.A. also secured the documented
right to amend the legal claim and add a co-defendant, complicit in the
slander! (Watch-out slanderers S.D.C.!) The defendants' first of many
publicized court appearances is on August 8th ("8/8")! "Stonewall
veterans fight back!" Ohhh, what a surprise! Stonewall vets
stand up to bullies! Duh! If you wish to follow the
shameful case: NYC Index
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Thursday, July 4, 2019 -- INDEPENDENCE HOLIDAY: 243rd BIRTHDAY of AMERICA
Tuesday, July 2 -- ADMIRING MESSAGE from HUDSON BLUE PRODUCTIONS
Subject: Congratulations STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association
From: "Pamela Lione" <HudsonBlueProductions@Gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, June 30, 2019 10:21 am
To: "Dr. Stone Wall, PhG." <WLH@nyct.net>
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Dear Willson Henderson and the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans,
Thank you for today "Stonewall 50" and for all that you all have done
and continue to do! Thank you for honoring Hudson Blue Productions
with not only all of your interesting and unique contributions to
the documentary film, but for letting all of us get to know such
amazing people. You will forever be in our hearts and we look
forward to future Collaborations with all of you in the National
STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association, proudly known as S.V.A.
All the best - to the best,
Pam A. Lione
Documentary Co-Producer
"Inside Stonewall!"
Monday, July 1, 2019 -- POST-STONEWALL 50: HOP GLORY and H.O.S. SHAME
The now multi-million dollar Heritage of Pride, Inc. ("HOP")
a.k.a. Heritage of Shame ("H.O.S."), to prove that they really are
not any "heritage of pride", failed to provide any accommodations for
the iconic members of the legendary STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association ("S.V.A.")
on
the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion! Even haters
within the G.L.B.T. diss-community admit that 50 years after the
greatest
event in G.L.B.T. history -- thus, WorldPride -- the now allegedly
heroic elders
should not have to walk, limp or crawl two miles, particularly in
the summer heat, with ailments such as heart disease,
osteoperosis, lung cancer,
scoliosis, debilitating diabetes, breathing problems, sciatica, inoperable hip
replacement, diverticulosis,
herniated discs, sarcodosis, osteo arthritis, legal blindness, etc.,
etc., etc. and other disabilities! Here's an evil idea for the
controlling evilish HOPers: Have each Pride-persecuted Stonewall
vet carry a huge wooden cross! Even if all of the mid-60s
and up age Stonewall vets were senior athletes, to show some
appreciation, they
should have been given cost-free convertibles! Think "Canyon of
Heroes
Parade" when the hometeam is honored for winning the world series!
But HOP/H.O.S. would not make one phone call or donate one
dollar. Apparently, Heritage of Shame expected the S.V.A. to have
a
flotilla of wheelchairs, walkers, crutches and canes -- plus pogo
sticks, skateboards and stilts instead of a fleet of
convertibles. Here is
just one story about a Stonewall veteran who H.O.S. thought should walk
the parade route and at the end... drop dead!
www.PopularPublicity.com/2019/07/02/Hospice-Patient-and-Stonewall-Participant-gets-Pride-Wish
Sunday, June 30 -- "GAY PRIDE SUNDAY" -- THE LAST SUNDAY in JUNE!
Half-century commemoration of the Stonewall Uprising --
"Stonewall Sunday" -- which was actually in the middle of "The Happening" on June 30th in 1969!
Fifty years later -- represented exclusively by the venerable STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association (S.V.A.) -- what will the surviving, under-acknowledged, legendary, under-appreciated veterans of
the original Stonewall Club police raids and the Stonewall Rebellion be
doing? Inquiring minds and people who are really
interested in and supportive of the real Gay 'heritage' of
respect and 'pride' want to know!
The S.V.A. members have
v-o-t-e-d! By an oustanding margin, it is "Plan C"! Winner is the "SVA's Culinary
& Cocktails Celebration"
at an outdoor restaurant in Greenwich
Village, NYC. For your info, "Plan A" was the losing entry Heritage of Pride +
Shame Parade. "Plan B" was the runner-up Reclaim Pride Coalition's "Spirit of Stonewall
50 March" (with no vehicles). This private "S/W Celebration"
is exclusively for S.V.A. Stonewall veterans only! No outsiders. No media.
First toast mouths @ 2 p.m...... Stay tuned!
Saturday, June 29 -- =NEW= and DEFINITIVE INVESTIGATIVE and REVEALING STONEWALL DOCUMENTARY: "INSIDE STONEWALL!"
There will be a surprise-location press conference about the forthcoming "Inside Stonewall!"
documentary! The riveting and revealing film has in-person
interviews with Stonewall veterans Willson Henderson, Tony Viera, Bert
Coffman, Leigh McManus, David C. Scott, Rusty Rose
and others! In addition, the first
time in a half-century: interviews with three of the original New York
Cirty Police Department officers who were there that first night of the
1969 Stonewall Rebellion! It'll be their first interview for
television and with incredibly revealing Stonewall Uprising
411 via the NYCPD! Code: 1041.
Thursday, June 27th, 2019 -- 50-YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the GAY DATE of the 1969 STONEWALL REBELLION for GAY RESPECT and GAY RIGHTS
Wednesday, June 26 -- BIRTHDAY GREETINGS to STONEWALL CLUB BOUNCER DOORMAN and S/W VET SONNY CARSON in MINNESOTA
Tuesday, June 25 -- REMEMBERING the GREATEST ENTERTAINER: MICHAEL JACKSION (1958-2009)
Sunday, June 23 -- STONEWALL VETERANS' ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE in the N.Y.D.N.
The "SVA's 50th Annual Conference & Stonewall Reunion + Testimonials"
were reported on in many of the media as they virtually all attended
including, but not limited to, The New York Times, the New York Post,
Long Island Newsday, Time Magazine, Reuters News Service and National Public Radio in
addition to many foreign publications, television news shows and
radio stations! Here's the article "Stonewall Veterans Reflect on 50 Year Anniversary" published in the New York Daily News. The SVA's traditional entertainer Sandy Rapp and two of the Stonewall veterans Anthony Coron and Bert Coffman
are featured in the interviews and with a colorful close-up photo of
each! "Singer-guitarist Sandy Rapp cheered the progress of the last
half-century while offering a call for vigilance going forward." Bert remarked that as a Stonewall vet, he "...wants the
older people to remember pivotol "Stonewall" and the younger ones
to learn about it"!
www.NYDailyNews.com/New-York/NY-Stonewall-Club-Anniversary-20190622-story.html
Saturday,
June 22,
2019 -- "SVA's 50th
ANNUAL CONFERENCE & STONEWALL VETERANS REUNION + 'S/W' TESTIMONIALS"
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The National
STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans
Association ("S.V.A."), since the Summer of 1969, sponsors,
produces and presents the milestone,
informative, unique, interesting, rare and fascinating "SVA's 50th Annual Conference and Symposium
& Stonewall Veterans Reunion + Testimonials".....
Many surviving veterans of the New York City police raids on the
Gay
STONEWALL Bar & Dance Club and the
five-night 1969 Stonewall Uprising
attend -- "come home" -- and participate from all across America from California to Maine and
from Washington to Florida namely: Willson L. Henderson (NY + LI), Brooke Lynn (NJ), R. Bert Coffman (NY), Molly B. Aitken (MA), Jeremiah Jay Newton (NY), Patti Rae Stone (FL), Ramon F. Bellido (NY), Jitters M. Greenfield (NJ), Rusty B. Rose (NY), Michael I. Swerdlow (MX), Joni C. 'JC' Sobel (NY), Anthony 'A.C.' Coron (LI), Davey L. Leong (NY),..... Special "50th
Anniversary Memorial Tribute" to the ultimate Gay icon:
'Saint' Judy Garland (1922-1969), international entertainer, award-winning actress, legendary dancer and iconic singer..... New York City Public Officials
including U.S. congressmembers such as Yvette D. Clarke, NYC borough presidents such as Gale A. Brewer, NY state senators such as Dyane J. Savino, NYS assemblymembers such as Nicole C. Malliotakis, and NYC
councilmembers Carlina J. Rivera, among others, are confirmed guest speakers.....
SVA's divine
venue
for "STONEWALL-50" is the landmark St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
("SJELC") on
Gay-legendary Christopher Street just off Seventh Avenue South in
historic Greenwich
Village, Manhattan, N.Y. The SJELC's welcoming pastor Rev. Mark E. Erson delivers the
yearly "S.V.A. Invocation"..... Film sequences from the powerful,
accurate, exciting and timely
movie "STONEWALL!" by the
acclaimed, openly-Gay movie director Roland
Emmerich will be shown. The SVA's director Willson
was the exclusive 'Stonewall' consultant on the film..... SVA's
'live' entertainment tradition continues with popular Stonewall Era
folk singer Sandy Rapp performing three songs including her iconic "The Rainbow And The Flag" and her ironic "Everybody Was At Stonewall".....
Music from the original STONEWALL Club jukebox via the SVA's entertaining compact disc (C/D) collection:
"Songs of the Original STONEWALL
Bar & Dance Club Jukebox" (1966-1969)"
highlighting Gay-popular hit songs from Diana Ross & The Supremes,
Frankie
Valli & The Four Seasons, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Mary
Weiss
& The Shangri-Las, The Temptations, Shirley Bassey, Len
'Dovell'
Barry,
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, The Spiral Starecase, The Fifth
Dimension, Michael Jax & The Jackson 5 and Miss Connie Francis, et
al. Just like in the Gay bar and club jukeboxes in the 1960s
and into the 1970s, the night's finale song is Connie's
symbolic Gay anthem "Where The Boys Are"!.....
The SVA's "The Spirit of Stonewall Award" is proudly presented to the most out-standing
and helpful person on behalf of the legendary S.V.A. (there are several worthwhile nominees)..... The
S.V.A. spits out the
notorious "Hater-of-the-Year Diss-ward"
to the most hateful G.L.B.T. business or group (there are many
haters, e.g., G.C.N.,
S.D.C., L.I.D.)..... Special voting: Which non-profit G.L.B.T.
organization shall be the beneficiary of inheriting the classic and
historic 1969 convertible a.k.a. the "Stonewall Car"?!..... Many media
communication (television, radio and press) companies have
confirmed their attendance, including but surely not limited to CBS-TV, the New York Times (NYX), Time Magazine, New York-1 TV News, the N.Y. Daily News, Reuters News Service, ABC-TV, the N.Y. Post..... SVA's
conference, reunion
and
testimonials ignite the celebratory "Ten Days of Gay Pride" on Saturday,
June 22nd @ 3:15 p.m. and it shindigs
until 6 p.m. or so!
Special V-O-T-E for Members and Supporters re: S.V.A. decision on "Stonewall Sunday", June
30th, whether to participate in: "Plan A" - the Heritage of Pride-produced NYC Pride Parade @ 12
noon; "Plan B" (the Reclaim G.L.B.T. Pride Coalition's "Spirit of Stonewall 50
/ Liberation March" @ 10 a.m.; or "Plan C" (the SVA's Celebratory Cuisine +
Cocktails Commemoration at a Greenwich Village indoor/outdoor
restaurant @ 2 p.m.? Eligible voters will receive a 'voting card' upon signing-in at the conference!
Format: This year's conference will be interactive with audience for verbal exchanges and responses!
Attire: Casual; however, wear a rainbow color(s) and, preferably, no sneakers! Event will be filmed!
Voting Results for "Stonewall
Sunday": S.V.A. members voted! "Plan B" (the Reclaim Pride march) beat
"Plan A" (the H.O.S. parade) by a whopping 2 to 1! But, "Plan C" (4/C: celebratory
cuisine + cocktails commemoration) beat "Plan B" by more than 50%.
Heritage-of-Shame Award:
There was a unanimous agreement from the voting membership and
supporters at the popularly attended conference to vomit this
diss-award to four G.L.B.T. groups, all of which are known year-round
for cowardly and falsely attacking the alleged 'heros' of the
G.L.B.T. community and, all of which, disenguinely did not have
one member attend this ultimate WorldGayPride event! The
hateful G.L.B.T. groups shamefully include:
1) Heritage of Pride, Inc. aka Heritage of Shame with appoximate $5,000,000 and $0 for S.V.A.
2) Stonewall Democratic Club aka 'Stonewalling Democrat Clan', defamers of Stonewall veterans
3) Log Cabin Club Republicans, with zero connection to their Gay history via Stonewall veterans
4) Lambda 'Independent' Democrats aka 'Flipped their LID', exclusionary of the GLBT heroes
For much more STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association 411, see: www.StonewallVets.org/mainpage.htm.
Thursday, June 20 -- NYS GOVERNOR CUOMO to PRESENT PROCLAMATION to S.V.A.
Whether the Stonewall 50 'Proclamation' is presented -- hopefully -- by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo himself, a longtime supporter of the legendary non-profit STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association, we don't know at this moment. If the governor and First Lady Sandra Lee
were to go out-of-town after the yuuge, successful legislative session that just
ended very late last night, it would be understandable and deserved!
In the alternative, the governor always sends a prominent,
highly placed, openly-Gay staff member such as David Alden Turley or Alphonso 'Alfie' David.
Conference starts on Saturday @ 3:15 p.m. on Christiopher Street
-- a block up from the WorldGayPride display office of Governor
Cuomo!
Wednesday, June 19 -- UPCOMING "STONEWALL 50" DOCUMENTARY
The "STONEWALL Newzletta"
is not going to provide much info about this now
completed, unquestionbaly interesting and really revealing documentary
about the Stonewall Era, the STONEWALL Club, the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion,
the NYCPD Stonewall Cops, the 1969 "Stonewall Car", the "Songs of The
STONEWALL Club Jukebox", the STONEWALL Veterans Association and several Stonewall veterans including Willson Henderson, Berti Coffman, Rusty Rose, Tony Viera, David C. Scott,
et al. -- then and now! Reportedly, one
unearthed photograph from the Summer of 1969 shows two NYCPD uniformed
police officers bookending a certain well-known S.V.A. Stonewall vet!
Shhhh! What will SDC Dems and LID Dems and the other revisionists and haters and liars
say then? Negotiations are underway for the documentary to be sold and for it to appear on
network television! All three documentary producers will be speaking and taking questions and giving
awesome answers at the SVA's "Stonewall Rebellion Veterans Association 50th Annual Conference & Stonewall Reunion" on June 22nd!
Tuesday, June 18 -- "STONEWALL REBELLION VETERANS ASSOCIATION DAY" in BROOKLYN, NYC
Tuesday, June 18 -- "UNCLE JOE" BIDEN STOPS in at THE GAY TOURIST TRAP STONEWALL CLUB
The packed -- thanks only to the
'heroic' Stonewall veterans (not the current heterosexual owners such as Anthony DeCico and Bill Morgan who
pretend it's Gay-owned) -- cash cow Stonewall Club (nobody called it an
"inn") was visited by the current top Democrat candidate for
president Joe Biden!
Wow! There's no way that the patrons of the
original Stonewall Club
would have dreamed that, while we
were dancing to "Nothing But A Heartache Every Day" by The Flirtations,
that a half-century later a presidential candidate would appear!
Unthinkable! Did Mr. Biden expect to find any Stonewall
vets there?
Well, he didn't! Surely not federal felon Fred "Tree" Folkonovski or "The
Dirty Bird" (Marc Seagul). If Mr. Biden doubtfully wants "S/W
Vetz", his thinking-they're-clever 'handlers'
should have him pop up at the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans
Association's conference and reunion (see above) on the 22nd of June!
Monday, June 17 -- SVA's ATTORNEY REACHES the GAYRAGPAPER's CO-OWNER JOSHUA SCHLEPS
Fresh from his extended Father's Day weekend with his
politically-active wife and two very young children, S.V.A.
attorney Jared M. Rich caught the NYC Gayragpaper's (allegedly) heterosexual co-owner Joshua Schneps.
Incredibly, the latter asked the former, "Why are you calling
me"! Duh! Because of the libel, defamation, character
assassination, sleaze, lies, misrepresentation, lies, slime, lies and
scum by the poison pen Druncan Ozburn
that you maliciously published in your ragpaper and posted on the
internet with the intent of causing harm against the legendary STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association and its industrious director Willson Henderson! That's several of the reasons 'why'! Mr. Rich informed Mr. Schneps that, for starters, his client S.V.A.
wants the 'slander sheets' from 2019 -- and 2015 -- taken down!
Even an imbecile would knoiw that attacking the Stonewall veterans
during Gay Pride Month -- especially "Stonewall 50" -- is really low
for Schneps Media, although obviously not too low for lowlife
Druncan Ozburn! FYI, the other co-owner is Josh's mama Vicky Sue Schneps.
The SVA's Willson remarked that for every photo she has
posted on their website with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, I have ten.
We'll present them in the court case!" This matter is not
going away!
Friday, June 14 -- FROM STONEWALL to SYNAGOGUE: S.V.A. DOES SHABATT
The STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association was the esteemed guest of the Reform Temple of Forest Hills ("RTFH") .
The
RTFH held a special "G.L.B.T. Pride Shabbath" for its
Friday evening services. The keynote "Stonewall 50" speaker was Willson Henderson, founder of the S.V.A., covered
everything from"A" (Abzug the congresswoman) to "Z" (Zombrowski a
deceased S/W vet). Program began at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, June 11 -- STONEWALL VETERANS FILM INTERVIEWS for PROMINENT ADVERTISING AGENCY
Actual former patrons and Stonewall 'veterans' discuss many topics in film, as only Stonewall veteans can, such as the Stonewall Era (1966 to 1969), the original STONEWALL Club (not the heterosexually-owned facsimile that's there now), Gay icon Judy Garland's funeral on June 27th, 1969 (the day of the Stonewall Uprising), the police-confiscated 1969 convertible "Stonewall Car", and the wonderful "Songs of The Stonewall Jukebox"! Stonewall veteran participants include Willson Henderson, Bert Coffman, Leigh McManus and Joni Sobel. This outing will be a special 'S/W-50' short film entitled "Stonewall Lives!".
Monday, June 10 -- STONEWALL VET BIRTHDAY: BILL MIRANDA SALZMAN of BROOKLYN
Sunday, June 9 -- STONEWALL REBELLION VETERANS ASSOCIATION RECEIVES PRESTIGEOUS G.L.B.T. PRIDE AWARD (T.B.A.)
Sunday, June 9 -- INTERVIEW with STONEWALL VET MOLLY AITKEN in NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
"Miss Molly" (as we call her) Bennett Aitkenwas
interviewd about the upcoming S.V.A. reunion of Stonewall Rebellion
veterans on June 22nd! Molly was there the first night, June
27th, 1969 of the Stonewall Uprising -- the day of the funeral of
international Gay icon
Judy Garland. Molly and several Gay women friends were also at
the funeral of Judy, as were The Kennedys. Molly was a longtime
friend of the late U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. In fact, Molly and
friends had the third
Cadillac on that long Christopher Street block that night; they
had her silver Fleetwood Brougham. One of the Mafia owners of The
STONEWALL Club had the second Cadillac, a black Sedan DeVille.
Willson
Henderson had the main Cadillac, the one that the undercover cops drove
away, a
blue DeVille convertible. The NYDN author Muri Arrancao reported that Molly
is a charter member of the executive committee of the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association. Way to go, Miss Molly! www.NYDailyNews.com/News/NY-Stonewall-Rebellion-Anniversary-older-younger-generations-lgbtq.html
Saturday, June 8 -- S.V.A. SOCIAL COMMITTEE SUPPER MEETING @ CASTLE RESTAURANT @ 4 p.m.
Tuesday, June 6 -- CONTRIVED 'APOLOGY' GIVEN by NYCPD POLICE COMMISSIONER
The official New York City Police Department 'apology' was publicly stated a quarter-of-a-century ago by then NYCPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton under Mayor Rudy Giuliani. The mayor was/is an ardent appreciator of the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association.
In fact, Mayor Rudy marched with the S.V.A. and the 1969
"Stonewall Car" in several NYC Gay Pride parades under the watchful
eyes of Commish Bratton. S.V.A. members discussesd the
appropriateness of a police deparment apology coordinated with
"Stonewall-25". For "Stonewall 35", there was a truly histoiric
rendezvous between the "Stonewall Copz" and the "Stonewall Vets"!
It was covered by CBS-TV, the New York Times and NPR Radio among
other media. The Sixth Precinct Retirees president Frank Toscano
and other officers such as Richie Ornstein and Vinnie Manacuso, issued
a formal apology to the Stonewall veterans on behalf of NYCPD
patrolmen! Fastforward many years, today's old news was set up by
Gay Officers' Action League
("GOAL") at their Gay Pride event at Police Plaza -- ignorantly void of
any G.L.B.T. Stonewall veterans! Local characters like
self-serving and disrespectful Councilboy 'Horey Johnsin' would not know the real Gay history as he was likely still wetting his bed, lived
far away in another state, and obviously he does not read recent
G.L.B.T. history, that is, since Stonewall! Besides, if current
Cop Commish James O'Neill
was
sincere and not used by GOAL, he would have stated such remarks as a
'renewal' (not new) and presented them at an event to the veterans
of The
Stonewall Rebellion -- the people who actually deserved the apology --
not "stealing Stonewall" politicians and attempting to "steal
Stonewall" Gay groups like S.D.C. and L.I.D. So,
'apologizing' again and again and again at calculated moments is
not only repetitive but for people of a certain age (over 40) it's
borrrring! It's like saying "Merry Christmas" in summertime; it
has no meaning!
Wednesday, June 5 -- S.V.A. SPONSOR PARTY: THE VON PUBLIC RELATIONS AGENCY
The Von Agency, headed up by Leticia Remauro and George Remauro,
holds their new office-warming party! The full-service public
relations firm is well-known in NYC. Co-owner Leticia is
regularly seen as a political consultant on New York-1 TV's "Inside
City Politics" show. The S.V.A. is represented today by director Willson Henderson and assistant-to-the-director Baron Morris, Jr. Local public officials are expected. The festivities begin on Beach Street in Staten Island, NY @ 6 p.m. www.TheVonAgency.com.
Monday, June 3 -- STONEWALL VET BIRTHDAY: MICHAEL IRA SWERDLOW of LONG ISLAND
Saturday, June 1, 2019 -- BEGINNING of GAY PRIDE MONTH -- STONEWALL-50!
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Monday, May 27 -- STONEWALL VET BIRTHDAY: JONI C. SOBEL of MANHATTAN
Monday, May 27 -- U.S.A. MEMORIAL DAY (Holiday)
Saturday, May 25 -- STONEWALL
VETERANS' ASSOCIATION MEETING at MANHATTAN L.G.B.T. CENTRE
This Memorial
Day Weekend, as the National
STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association plans
ahead for the half-century celebration of the 1969 NYC Stonewall
Rebellion and the half-century anniversary of
the S.V.A., we also remember the Stonewall veterans who the
G.L.B.T. community has
lost! The list is long and includes Emile A. Griffith, Jr. (dementia
from boxing career), Aubrey Drummond (AIDS), Storme
DeLarverie (old age at 93), Terri Van Dyke (AIDS), Sonia Jane Attkiss (car
accident), Eddie H. Wright, Jr. (AIDS), Dave F. West (bladder cancer),
Stanley M. Dunne (AIDS), Electra J. O'Mara (pancreatic cancer), Steven
M. Konigsberg (AIDS), Glenn La Russo (liver cancer), Leroi N. Carr (AIDS), and David R. Ali (motorcycle crash)! Many
more were mostly victims of the deadly AIDS War, particularly during all
of
the 1980s and the 1990s!
Never forget that the tremendous loss changed the face of the G.L.B.T. community
today!
S.V.A. director Willson L. Henderson
chairs -- tables and lamps -- the guaranteed to be participatory, informative and exciting
meeting! Several Stonewall vets have confirmed their presence
including: Berti Coffman, Rusty Rose, Tony Viera, Ramon Bellido, Joni Sobel, Davey Leong and Jitters Greenfield. Special guest speaker is Countess Cindy Chan, president of the Imperial QUEENS & Kings of Greater New York. Today's main topic: Comprehensive discussions and planning
for the "SVA's 50th Annual Conference & Stonewall Reunion" including advertising, emailing lists, invitations, set-ups, mailings and foods. Topic
two: Voting regarding the parade, the march, or neither!
There are three categories of S.V.A. voters: 1)
"S/W Vets" Stonewall Club police
raids and rebellion veterans, 2) non-vet general members in good standing, and
3)
S.V.A.
sponsors. Pertaining to "Stonewall Sunday" on June 30th,
they vote today
choosing: Plan "A" - Heritage of Pride-produced "G.L.B.T. Mini-Parade from Nowhere {East 29
St.} to Nowhere {West 24 St.})"; Plan
"B" - Reclaim L.G.B.T. Pride's "Spirit of Stonewall-50 March";
or
Plan "C" - "SVA's Celebratory Cuisine & Cocktails Commemoration"
("4-C") at an outdoor/indoor restaurant, appropriately, in Greenwich
Village! The choice is
which "S/W-50"
event should the S.V.A. activate on Stonewall
Sunday on the last day in
June?! Whichever plan, it shall feature the renowned blue 1969
convertible
"Stonewall Car", iconically a rolling symbol of timeless Gay Pride! Key topic three: nominations for S.V.A.
president; note: WLH is the director, not the president. Main topic 4:
Since the current beneficiary group has been deemed unsupportive, ineligible and
unworthy, submitting nominees for a new G.L.B.T. organization to be the
recipient of said
famous, classic and valuable vehicle!
Topic '86': In the
bottom-of-the-toilet department,
'Druncan Ozburn'
has struck
again! Like a vicious cancer that was treated (in this case
by court decision), you expect it has been cured,
yet it flares up again. SVA-ers and their Brooklyn-bred,
pro-active attorney will give a presentation
about the latest attacks by cowardly Druncan. The SVA's
lawyer has analyzed the gross
misrepresentations and
false statements against the S.V.A. and its director
recklessly published by Schneps Communications, Inc. aka Schleps Media in their Orwellian-truth and ethically-deprived Gay City News!
The voting membership decides which
legal action against the libelous, defamatory, slanderous and character assassination GayRagPaper additionally known as 'Gay Sh*tty News' as evidenced by the sleaze, slime and scum vomitted out by its dubious poison pen Duncan Osborne! The SVA's public relationist Kelsie J. Jones delivers all of the dubious Druncan dirt and how to bury it!
SVA's general manager AnDre Christie
greets folks at the door and collects dues and donations, similiar to
the doorman Blond Frankie at the original STONEWALL Club! Remember him? We got him! Comfort foods like hot,
organic, gormet Neopolitan pizza are provided complementary to S.V.A. members. Attendees bring their own favorite or zesty beverages. Meeting and commemoration
begin at the Manhattan LGBT Centre @ 3:15 p.m. until 5 p.m.
Post-Event Updates: Because of the prepondence and immediacy of "STONEWALL-50"
matters and events, especially the ultimate "S.V.A. 50th Conference
& S/W Reunion", the meeting was pre-scheduled for an additonal
hour. The membership and supporters deciding on launching legal
actions against the trash-pedling Schleps Media and unflushed
toilet-mouth Druncan Ozburn was unanimous and took less than two
minutes! While the get2gether was well-attended,
including six media persons, besides on a major holiday weekend,
several S/W vets were out-of-town visiting relatives or absent due
to
sudden health issues. Therefore, voting for SVA's "Stonewall
Sunday" (June 30) event choosing Plan "A", "B" or "C" (see above) was,
despite some objections, postponed via
an order by S.V.A. director Willson until the SVA's
conference
on June 22 to make a decision!
Thursday, May 23 -- 'STONEWALLING' DEMOCRAT CLUB SHAMEFULLY 'HONORS' the NYC GAYRAPAPER
As the SVA's namesake 'Stonewall' Democratic Club ("SDC") also known as 'Stonewalling' Democrat Club knows full well, the STONEWALL Veterans Association ("S.V.A.") had to sue the NYC Gayragpaper
in civil court for libel, defamation, slander, etc. The
Gayragpaper attacked the alleged heroes of the G.L.B.T. community!
So, what does the SDC do? They 'honor' the Gayragpaper!
The two thoughts do not gell! After many scattered days of
trial, with eyewitnesses of the historic rebellion in 1969 and the
sleaze now, the judge, the jury of peers and the judge concluded that
the Stonewall veterans of the S.V.A. are analogous to the Suffragets
and the SVA's founder and director Willson Henderson is the 'Gay Rosa
Parks' -- "Mr. Henderson has successfully fought for Gay rights.... and
Mr. Henderson continues to do so"! What part of the clear
decision does the S.D.C. not understand?
Thursday, May 23 -- STONEWALL VETERANS to SUE the NYC GAY CITY NEWS aka the "GAYRAGPAPER"
The legendary National STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association
("S.V.A."), since
1969, has filed its legal intention to $ue, in the Civil Court of
New York, the pending defendant Schneps Communications aka Schleps
Media doing business as Gay City
News aka the "Gayragpaper" for slander, character assassination,
defamation, harm to organizational business, and libel as a result
of their publications of two grossly misrepresenting and virtually
false
articles by the repeat offender Duncan T. Osborne, nasty elder age 62, aka
'Druncan Turd
Ozburn'! The SVA's attorney had warned them to attempt to correct
the matters; however, even after co-owner Joshua Schneps recently
received an in-person visit by the SVA's attorney Jared M. Rich,
Esq., the Schleps publishers have failed to act to remedy by
removing said false articles and personal attacks with the intent
to collectively harm the
non-profit S.V.A. organization and individually malign its elected
director Willson L. Henderson. The civil
complaint, currently being prepared, may be revised to add a
particular G.L.B.T organization which plaintiff, upon information
and belief, believes to be clearly complicit by publicly
promoting, encouraging, and praising the defendant(s).
Wednesday, May 22 -- "STONEWALLING" DEMOCRAT CLUB 'HONORS' (HA-HA) the "GAYRAGPAPER"!?
A-l-e-r-t! This is not a joke! Contrary to working with the STONEWALL Veterans' Association, as they did for a few decades, the 'Stonewall' Democratic Club
(S.D.C.) aka "'Stonewalling' Democrat Club"
has inexplicably
(beyond jealousy and hate) been slandering the G.L.B.T.
community's Stonewall
veterans for the past few years. That's "Pride"? No, it's
the polar opposite of "Stonewall"! The S.V.A. is not going to
play "Mr. Clean" any further with mud-throwers and back-stabbbers!
They've squandered occasions to discuss and resolve. S.D.C.
is known
for trying to confuse folks with the "Stonewall" namesake as many
public officials and others have conveyed. They even place a
movie set photo (not the real thing) of the Stonewall Club on
their website pretending to be actual Stonewall-related! What
could
S.D.C. possibly say about the Stonewall veterans to new people who
come to the S.D.C.? Whatever it is, it's not nice -- nor
true! Notwithstanding, the S.D.C. has now gone way too far in
their diss-respect by
'honoring' the NYC Gayragpaper!
No one could honestly 'honor' the Gayragpaper! Who's next, old hate-monger Ruben Diaz? Maybe S.D.C. was paid? The
Gayragpaper's recent issue, on the eve of "Stonewall 50", attacked, libeled, defamed and was malicious
in their misrepresenting the non-prodit S.V.A. organization and its members and character assassinating
its renowned director Willson Henderson,
also the owner of a business! Sadly, the skewed Gayragpaper is the only G.L.B.T. so-called newspaper in 8-million-plus NYC! The S.D.C. commited this shameful
sham act even after the S.V.A. announced via email its intent to sue
the 'Gay rag' for libel, defamation and slander. As the S.D.C.
knows, that's deja vu! The last time the S.V.A. sued the
Gayragpaper, under different but similarly damaging and hateful
ownership, the Civil Court of NY declared the SVA-ers analogous to The
Suffragets. SVA's director Willson Henderson was declared the
"Gay Rosa Parks"! FYI, the S.D.C. was supportive of the SVA's outrage then. Want
a copy of the landmark 7-page decision? Send ten dollars and a
self-addressed and stamped envelope to the S.V.A.
Tuesday, May 21 -- NYS GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO HOSTS G.L.B.T. "S/W-50" COCKTAIL PARTY
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo hosts his annual "G.L.B.T. Pride Cocktail Party" today! Representing the STONEWALL Veterans Association is its director Willson Henderson, general manager AnDre Christie, Stonewall veterans Leigh McManus and Berti Coffman plus Steven Gradman and Mary Palavi from PRIDE Democrats of NYC. The party is at the openly-Gay lounge and bar Industry at 355 West 52 Street off Ninth Avenue in Hell's Kitchen, NYC. Event toasts @ 6 p.m.
Monday, May 20 -- LEGENDARY STONEWALL JUKEBOX SONGSTRESS BIRTHDAY: CHER SARKISIAN
Sunday, May 19 -- STONEWALL VETS' ASSN.'s 16th
ANNUAL STREETFAIR in GREENWICH VILLAGE
The STONEWALL
Rebellion Veterans Association holds its "SVA's
16th Annual NYC Stonewall Streetfair"! Come meet and greet
several legendary
veterans of the historic Stonewall Rebellion! After all, on the
eve of the 50th anniversary of the uprising and, naturally, the
S.V.A., so many in Manhattan are full of so much... Pride!
Another rare feature of only this streetfair is that on display
for the public's information and interest will be the famous blue
1969 convertible "Stonewall Car", illegally 'impounded' by the NYCPD at the 1969 uprising!
One of the unique items for sale at omly the S.V.A. streetfair is the
"Songs of The Stonewall Jukebox" compact disc! Streetfair is
produced by Mardi Gras Productions. The SVA's
streetfair venue is on University Place between East 14th Street
and Waverly Place in Greenwich Village, NYC. Subways are the 4,
5, 6, L, N, Q and R to the Union Square station. Open
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Visit: www.StonewallVets.org/StonewallStreetfair.htm.
Sunday, May 19 -- NEW YORK CITY A.I.D.S. WALK @ 9 a.m.
Thursday, May 16 -- NYC GAY PRIDE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: 50 YEARS (1969 to 2019)
The highly-praised "New York City Gay Pride Parades Photographs" of Suzanne Poli
are timely on display for "STONEWALL-50"! Suzanne has been
dilligently photographing the parade for an incredible 50 years from
the bird's eye view of her apartment's fire escape on Christopher Street! Look for a photo(s) of the renowned blue 1969 convertible a.k.a. the "Stonewall Car"! Time:
6 p.m. The Norwood Gallery is located at 241 West 14th
Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues in Manhattan, NYC.
Wednesday, May 15 -- LEGAL POW-WOW: S.V.A. and ITS ATTORNEY re: NYC GAYRAGPAPER
The SVA's legal counsel and recent NYC public advocate candidate Jared M. Rich, Esq., met with S.V.A. representatives at his scenic law office opposite Brooklyn Borough Hall today. The topic is the Schneps Communications publishing an obviously libelous article by the infamous, so-called writer Druncan Ozburn
aka Duncan Osborne. SVA's attorney Mr. Rich is fully aware of the
sordid history, the prior legal case (which the S.V.A. and its director
were clearly victorious) and the current bogus and defamatory slander
sheet in the NYC Gayragpaper aka Gay City News. Attending for the S.V.A. was director Willson Henderson, board member Ramon Bellido, general manager AnDre Christie and treasurer Mendy Seltza.
After the productive and informative meeting and before out to a
Brooklyn promenade restaurant supper, the contingency took a 'field
trip' in walking distance to the one-room, tele-marketing style
office of the Gayragpaper publishers Schneps!
Tuesday, May 14 -- SVA's DIRECTOR WILLSON HENDERSON INTERVIEWS with MAJOR NYC NEWSPAPER
The National STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association regarding its elected director Willson L. Henderson's newest interview provides Clue #1 that it is a major publication and factual newspaper, thus, it is not Schneps Media and their NYC Gayragpaper!
Among the timely topics covered for this "STONEWALL-50" story are
the following: 1) Gross diss-respect and ingratitude of the Heritage of Pride, Inc.
(heavy on the incorporated) a.k.a. 'Heritage of Shame' in not naming
the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association as the grand marshal of
that parade (they would maybe name Grandma-the-Clown as head of the
St. Patrick's Day Parade); 2) the ultimate Gay rip-off "The Stonewall Inn"
(formerly The Bagel Nosh, Christopher Street Dry Cleaning and
Leatherosa {clothing store} now a.k.a. The Gay Cash Cow
and virtually owned by heterosexuals with a liddle percentage to
two
'investment owner' Gay tokens and selfishly gives zilch to the
S.V.A., greedily keeping all the ca$h for them$elves; 3) the Manhattan LGBT Centre
shamefully charging the Stonewall veterans to meet there monthly,
flying in the face of "R-e-s-p-e-c-t" besides zillion-dollar Google &
Company forking over $1,000,000 to 'The Centre' for "Stonewall stories"
and preserving the legacy of Stonewall -- the recipient should have
at least been in part to the non-profit S.V.A. which posseses the Stonewall
legacy, the Stonewall veterans and the Stonewall car; and 4) what legal
proceedings and other actions the S.V.A. will be exercising against the NYC Gayragpaper (last
time they were sued by Willson and the S.V.A., the NYC Civil Court
declared
the SVA-ers as analogous to The Suffragets and WLH as the 'Gay Rosa
Parks' - who won that lawsuit?!). Notice how #1 to #3 is all
about money! Money! MONEY! for them! Look for
the informative, accurate and food-for-thought major newspaper article
to be published this
week!
Monday, May 13 -- ANOTHER S.V.A. OFFICIAL REACTS to NYC GAYRAGPAPER's PUBLISHED LIBEL
Is the jaded New York City G.L.B.T. community tone deaf, asks actual Stonewall veteran Mary Twist? Upon information and belief, Duncan T. Osborne was or is a member of the NAMbLA!
Besides the information that has been gathered and continues to
be investigated, NAMbLA's headquarters was or is in Massachusetts.
And guess where also know as Druncan Ozburn
is
from? No, not New York! He's from... Massachusetts.
Coincidence? Maybe not. No wonder dubious
Druncan knows so much about witch-hunts! Just like the evil
witches attack at Christmastime, Druncan attacks at Gay Pridetime.
Wake up everybody and smell nthe schmear! Druncan
desperately conspires to make the S.V.A. 'controversial'. Hello,
the entire G.L.B.T. community is controversial! Learn
more about
the controversial Gay organization NAMbLA at: www.NAMbLA.org.
Saturday, May 11 -- CONCERT:
"LEADING LADIES of MOTOWN" STARRING MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS
and BRENDA HOLLOWAY and MARY WILSON of THE SUPREMES at the ST. GEORGE
THEATRE in STATEN ISLAND
The "Leading Ladies of Motown" starring
the legendary Martha Reeves & The
Vandellas and Mary Wilson of
The Supremes is
an exciting and unique double-header concert!! Many
great songs of
the original Stonewall Club jukebox will be performed. The
hits surely will include: "You Can't Hurry Love" (MW),
"Jimmy Mack" (MRV),
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" (MW), "My Baby Loves Me" (MRV), "Reflections"
(MW), "Honey Chile" (MRV) and "Someday We'll Be Together" (MW)!
The
S.V.A.
has an attending contingency including Willson L. Henderson, AnDre M. Christie and Baron Morris, Jr. with their supreme guests NYS Senator Dyane J. Savino, NYS Assemblywoman Nicole C. Malliotakis and Staten Island borough president candidate Leticia M. Remauro and her stunning daughter Jennifer
in the special "presidential pit" right in front of the stage!
The concert
happens at the historic St. George Theatre in Staten Island @ 8 p.m.
We arrive @ 7 p.m. for excitement, reunions and cocktails!
For more 411, visit: www.SGTR.org.
Tuesday, May 7 -- SVA's GENERAL MANAGER REACTS to 'SICKO' DRUNCAN's TRASH
The STONEWALL Veterans' Association and its over 10,000 subscribers and many others are sick of this damn menace Duncan Osborne
better known as 'Druncan Ozburn'!
For Stonewall 50, Ozburn attacks the Stonewall Uprising vets!
Who's crazy? Druncan has been sued for slander and
libel before in court by the S.V.A. and the liar still hasn't
learned! Unethical Gay City News aka the GayRagPaper published by Schneps Communications, Inc.
is the sole enabler
for his sleaze. Now devious Druncan is trying to cause
trouble between S.V.A. and
Heritage of Pride parade organizers. Fortunately, both
groups are wise to him and his sleazey tactics. Fact: HOP
presented
SVA with a deserved honorarium just ten months ago! Did you read
that in Druncan's lies? No! Last year the S.V.A. with
the blue
1969 convertible led (along with the march marshals) the New York City
GLBT Pride Parade! Druncan is a
nasty, miserable, self-hating
gay man full of toxic sh*t! Regarding Willson Henderson, the only
gay leader I've known, besides the late SVAer Storme DeLarverie,
I'm not running down any list of
accomplishments but WLH, as just one example, takes
over a few hundred calls a year for FREE with the welcoming to all and
the patience of a saint from school educators, teachers and
students as
young as ten writing letters, telephoning and emailing about the Stonewall life, Stonewall club and Stonewall uprising
events.
If you want to know about 'Stonewall', you don't call the
GayRagPaper! That loser Druncan needs to shut the 'F' up and that
slanderous queer ragpaper needs
to be sued in f'ing court again and asap! AnDre M. Christie,
S.V.A.
General Manager. www.StonewallVets.org/AnDreChristie.htm
'Monday, Monday', May 6 -- GAYRAGPAPER's DRUNCAN OZBURN IS at IT AGAIN: SLANDER!
The STONEWALL Veterans' Association firmly believes that when you win a game anywhere else, you win! But not always in the underbelly of the partially jaded NYC Gay diss-community. Sometimes "You Just Can't Win" (song from "The Wiz"). Or can U?
The S.V.A. thinks so. Several years ago the S.V.A. and its
founder had to sue the Gaypaper's predecessor (same three gay white men
key staff) ragpaper LGNY New York.
The court nutshell declared: The Stonewall veterans of the S.V.A.
are analogous to The Suffragets and its leader fighting for GLBT rights
Willson Henderson is the 'Gay
Rosa Parks' and "...he continues to fight for gay rights"! WLH
was not awarded money ionly because he was deemed a "NYC public
figure". Nice compliment but it was news to him. On
the eve of "STONEWALL-50", the demented brain and poison pen of 'Druncan Ozburn'
(aka Duncan Osborne) scribbles more of his potentially
damaging dribble. That is self-hating Druncan's intent: to harm!
The legal action will undoubtedly name former defamation defendant and so-called writer 'Druncan Ozburn' aka Duncan Osborne. Sadly, some in the local
gay political
clubs are complicit in these smear attacks by their silence!
That's not the "Spirit of Stonewall"!
Tuesday, April 30 -- SVA's WILLSON INTERVIEWED by GAY CITY NEWS re: "S/W-50" GAY PRIDE MARCHES!!
Although it surprised everybody that successful G.L.B.T. activist Willson Henderson ("WLH") agreed to do an 'interview' with Gay City News (GCN), after they contacted him, particularly with the inteviewer being devious Duncan Osborne! For your information, the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association and WLH had to sue the defunct predecessor (same three white gay men key staff) of the GCN known as LGBT New York,
previously for slander, defamation and libel by this same writer.
The LGBT ragpaper went out-of-business filing
bankruptcies subsequent to the lawsuit's 7-page decision and the
backlash against the ragpaper and Duncan Osborne a.k.a. Druncan Ozburn! Some now think maybe
he wants to redeem himself. The SVA's Willson was
contacted by email and then telphone by Duncan. The topic was
stated as the Heritage of Pride thoughtlessly and rudely not selecting
the Veterans of the Stonewall Rebellion as thee
grand marshall of the "Stonewall 50 March"! Many SVA-ers who were
informed of the planned interview had 'reservations' because the
questionable questioner was Duncan. However, this shows
the type of person WLH is: trusting and nice! Lettuce see if the Duncan can
be likewise? Many stated that they: "Don't trust Druncan"!
Sunday, April 28 -- REMEMBERING
STONEWALL VET DAVID R. ALI, DIED in 1986 MOTORCYCLE CRASH
Saturday, April 27,
2019 -- STONEWALL VETERANS
ASSOCIATION
MONTHLY MEETING
The STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans
Association members
and supporters mark the countdown of
exactly two months until the 50th anniversary of the historic 1969
Stonewall Uprising... June 27, 1969! This S.V.A.
gathering focuses
on strategizing and planning for "STONEWALL-50"!
Get2gether is hosted by S.V.A. director Willson L. Henderson.
Reports
from S.V.A. Executive Committee members (all Stonewall veterans) such
as Bert Coffman, Rusty B. Rose, A. Tony Viera, Joani C. Sobel, Ramon Bellido, Keith Lonesome and David Leong. Documentarians
will
be present. So will members of the press including the Associated
Press, National Public Radio and Reuters News Service. "Miss
April" guest speaker is: Kelsie
Jones,
a prominent, national Transgender all-media investigator. Like
endless
other persons in the G.L.B.T. community, she is concerned about the
mistreatment of the legendary Stonewall veterans
vis-a-vis "Stonewall-50". KJ: "It's disrespectful that
this is an issue. Worsening the offensiveness is that all of
the
iconic Stonewall vets are now senior citizens! That's how the
G.L.B.T. community treats its elders? Sad. Too many
Gay groups
for
self-promotion are hijacking 'Stonewall' from the Stonewall
veterans"! Today: Stonewall
Veterans tell about how they first learned of the original
Stonewall Club
(nobody called it an "Inn"). Attendees are greeted by the SVA's
handsome general manager AnDre M.
Christie. Meeting at the Manhattan LGBT Centre starts
promptly @
3:15 p.m.
Thursday, April 24 -- STONEWALL JUKEBOX STAR BIRTHDAY:
BARBRA STREISAND
Geographically, Barbra 'Birthday
Girl' Streisand
had the closest proximity to the original STONEWALL Club, not only
because of her not-so-far-away Broadway musicals "I Can Get It For You
Wholesale" and "Funny Girl", but because Babs used to perform
down-the-block and around-the-corner at The Bon Soir Club. In the
Stonewall Jukebox, there was always a Barbra song whether a
ballard like "My Man" or fast like "Don't Rain On My
Parade", a custom-fit G.L.B.T. song for Gay Pride parades!
Monday, April 22 -- BROADWAY CARES
PRESENTS "33rd ANNUAL EASTER BONNET COMPETITION"
Broadway
Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
("BC/EFA") is known for decades for producing some of the most
professional, talented and fascinating shows on- or off-Broadway!
This is the incredible thirty-third incarnation of the
awesome "Easter Bonnet Competition"
-- a fund-raiser for BC/EFA.
Tom A. Viola is the
incredible hands-on/feet-on executive producer! Once again, the
production is held at the legendary Minskoff
Theatre at 200 West 45th Street at the famed Shubert Alley in the Times
Square area of Manhattan, NY. Showtime is @ 8 p.m. For
more 411:
www.BroadwayCares.org.
Sunday,
April 21 (Easter) -- "MOTOWN
60" TELEVISION SPECIAL STARRING
DIANA ROSS
This "Motown 60" television special
celebrates the
remarkable 60th anniversary of Motown
Records founded by the musically
and business brilliant Berry Gordy,
Jr. Original legendary Motown singing
artists who perform include: Diana Ross,
Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves, Stevie Wonder, Thelma Houston, Boyz-2-Men and Brenda Holloway!
Expect
to hear several "Songs of The Stonewall Club Jukebox" (1966-1969)
during the height of the Motown Era! (Willson Henderson, the
SVA's music expert, will let you know which songs to be posted
here.)
Confirmed hit songs performed by Miss Ross are "Do You Know Where You're
Going To" from her movie "Mahogany" and "My Man" from her #1 film "Lady
Sings The Blues". There
are 'In Memoriam' tributes to: Michael Jackson, Mary Wells,
Marvin Gaye, Tammi
Terrell, Levi Stubbs (of The Four Tops), Gladys
Horton (of
The
Marvelettes), Jimmy Ruffin, Barbara Randolph,
Shorty Long and
Florence Ballard (of The Supremes), plus from
The Temptations: Dennis Edwards, Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin and Paul
Williams.
Ironically, it
was fifty years ago during the Stonewall Era when Diana Ross & The
Supremes (Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong) with The
Temptations
(Dennis, Eddie, Paul, Melvin and Otis) had their second successful
national television special "Get It
Together (GIT) on Broadway"! Showtime tonight is @ 8 p.m. to 10
p.m. on CBS-TV.
Read more about the show: www.PRNewswire.com/News/Motown-60-a-Grammy-Celebration-a-Diamond-Jubilee.html
Post-Event
Updates -- "Songs
of The Original Stonewall Club Jukebox" performed on the show include:
"You
Can't Hurry Love", "My Guy", "Ain't Nothing Like The Real
Thing", "I Can't Get Next To
U" and the 1969 re-released "Dancing In The Street"!
Saturday, April 20 -- FILMING for "STONEWALL-50
DOCUMENTARY: 'AIN'T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING'"
The Stonewall veterans
scheduled for this "STONEWALL-50 Film" segment,
including Willson Henderson, Tony Viera and Leigh McManus, have been notified as
to location and time. One "S/W-Vet" who is so anxious for
their close-up is the 1969 "Stonewall Car"! Theme song by
Motown's legendary duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
Thursday, April 11 -- S.V.A. STONEWALL VETERAN MICHAEL C. FESCO DIES @ 83
Michael C. Fesco,
like the very recently passed Ray McCaffrey, was an active member of
the S.V.A. Executive Committee. 'Captain' Michael was the
creative and energetic person behind the creation of "Sea Tea: New
York City's Gay Party Cruise". He was co-producer of the
first 'Black and White' parties, the Flamingo, the Ice Palace in Cherry
Grove and many other nightlife ventures. Michael and his
work redefined the way we experience G.L.B.T. nightlife
today! Weather-permitting, he used to ride his bike (wearing a
helmet) to S.V.A. monthly meetings. Sad to report that the
G.L.B.T. conmmuity at large and the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association,
in particular, lost two worthwhile and dedicated "S/W vets" who lived full lives -- Fesco (83) and McCaffrey (87) -- within
three days! And the apathetic Gay community band played on!
Monday, April 8 --
TRANSITION:
S.V.A. BOARDMEMBER RAY J. McMCAFFREY DIED at HOME in NJ at 87
Besides
being a charter member and boardmember of the
STONEWALL Veterans' Association and a longtime official of the
Imperial QUEENS & Kings of Greater New York, Raymond James McCaffrey was also a
military veteran of the Korean War! For more info on "Ray-Jay",
visit his webfile at the S.V.A.: www.StonewallVets.org/RayMcCaffrey.htm.
Friday, April 5 -- STONEWALL VET BIRTHDAY: QUEEN
ALLYSON ANN ALLANTE
Saturday, March 30 --
MONTHLY MEETING of the STONEWALL
VETERANS @ 3:15 p.m.
This
is the three-month marker
before "STONEWALL-50"
with the SVA's conference, the G.L.B.T.
festivities involving S.V.A. and the two simultaneous Gay Pride
parades/marches in New York City!! Discussing and planning for
those happenings is the main topic for today's
meeting. Some national media "S/W-50" project planners have
confirmed. Commandeering the meeting is the SVA's director Willson
Henderson.
Communications with public officials are reported by Bert
Coffman. Updates on
the Reclaim New York City G.L.B.T. Pride March are delivered by
S.V.A.
boardmember Ramon Bellido,
who
bi-weekly attends their weekly meetings. Leigh McManus
tells one-way conveyances with the main NYC Pubic Library in
Manhattan regarding their
overtly exclusionary and grossly lacking 'Stonewall' history
display. Rusty Rose
updates outreach with other G.L.B.T. organizations including the
diss-respectful 'Heritage of Shame'! Joani C.
Sobel reports on the SVA's next
streetfair and the SVA-won battle with
Community Bored #2. Stonewall vet David Scott fills us in on the SVA's
"S/W-50" committee news. Members
and guests are greeted at the door by the SVA's general
manager AnDre M. Christie.
S.V.A. dues and sponsorships are payable by check or money
order. Meeting at the Manhattan LGBT Centre begins
sharply @ 3:15 p.m.
Friday, March 29 -- JAMES E. "JED" DAVIS, FORMER NYC
COUNCILMAN, TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY
In their new
television news series "Only In New York", local tv
station PIX-11 presents a documentary on former NYCPD police officer
and NYC Councilman James E. (Jed)
Davis. Interviewing Jed's dedicated mother Thelma Davis
and his virtually lifelong little brother Geoffrey A. Davis are crucial.
Interviewing Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams,
also a former NYCPD police officer and Jed friend, makes total
sense.
Getting comments from Al 'Sharp-tongue' is a disconnect. Jed
referred
to him as "a former hairdresser"! Jed was a known active and
ardent supporter of the STONEWALL Veterans Association. In fact,
he was an honorary member. Since PIX-11's junior creative
producer Heath Benfield failed to contact several key people, we
are
presuming that the Jed documentary will not be a 'complete'
retrospective of Jed's real life. The project shows signs of
straight-washing! We doubt, in advance, they know
his non-family nickname was "Jed". Nonetheless, the S.V.A. is
glad that Jed is getting attention
he deserves. The half-hour show airs on
Channel 11 locally in the NY Tri-State area on Friday evening,
March
29th @ 10:30 p.m. (EST).
www.KingsCountyPolitics.com/PIX-11-documentary-on-late-City-Council-Member-James-E-Davis-Politics
Thursday, March 28 -- NYC GAYRAGPAPER HAS GALL to HOST GAY "IMAGE" AWARDS
Considering that the New York Gay City News aka Gayragpaper
has one of the -- if not thee -- worst 'image' in the G.L.B.T.
community and beyond, this hee-haw event is the height of
ludicrousness! Besides their discrimination practices, their
radical political ideologies and bankruptcies, the Gayragpaper has been
sued -- more than once -- for libel, defamation, slander and deliberate
interference with non-profit businesses! While it's no surprise
that the Gay group GOAL's
head, a consumed self-promoter, was a willing sucker to this sham,
it is surprising that a legitimate business such as T/D Bank would contribute to such a farce. Their Gay representative Steven Garibell, also known as "Gay Claribell", incredibly stated: "I
am so honored to have been part of such an amazing event being with
such a talented group of impactful individuals". Honored?
If Claribell thinks that the Gayragpaper's sham was 'amazing'
(ha-ha), he ought to attend the SVA's annual conference! T/D's
Steve G. attends anything and everything with the word "Pride" --
except the originators of the 'Pride', the legendary STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association!
Of course, all of this insultingly flies in the face of the
heroic Stonewall veterans who have been maliciously slandered by the
duo of lying creeps at the Gayragpaper. Ironically, the S.V.A.
has its account with T/D! Claribell's disgrace deepens.
Look for the Gayragpaper's bad image to be furthered with
another lawsuit for... libel, defamation and slander! What
else?
Thursday, March 28 --
FORMER NYC NYC COUNCILMEMBER
and NYC PARKS COMMISSIONER HENRY J. STERN DIES at 83
Pictured: SVA's Willson
Henderson, Commissioner Henry J. Stern and Mayor Ed Koch
Henry Jerome Stern,
a legendary New York City figure for four decades, served as the very
successful, entertaining and unique NYC Parks Commissioner under
three mayors: Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg.
At a ceremony, including dinner, at the Central Park Arsenal
around the turn-of-the-century, Commissioner Stern publicly
presented Willson Henderson's
park name as, of course, "Stonewall"! HJS's park name is
"StarQuest". After
government service, "S/Q" founded the
popular New York Civic government group with its outstanding and
introspective newsletters on current policy issues and
government-related happenings plus political personalities (good and
bad).
"Henry J" (like the
vintage car) was a solid and proud supporter
of the S.V.A. for over forty years! He was a keynote
speaker a decade ago at an S.V.A. conference at the Manhattan Gay
Centre. An interesting obituary on Mr. Stern is in the New
York Post. It shows a picture of StarQuest with a future
president, a trim Donald J. Trump in Central Park! NYPost.com/2019/03/28/Henry-Stern-City-Parks-Commisioner-dead-at-83
Wednesday, March 27 --
NEW YORK CITY G.L.B.T. PRIDE PARADE/MARCH TOWN HALL
This G.L.B.T.
town hall is sponsored by the Reclaim
GLBT Pride Coalition ("RPC").
The well-planned G.L.B.T.
community forum is to openly discuss and plan the "Spirit of Stonewall
March - STONEWALL-50" aka "the alternate GLBT march"! Thus, this
get2gether welcomes
community input. The actual milestone marches, three months away,
happen on the last Sunday in June on the 30th. This
march blasts-off
appropriately in Greenwich Village, NYC, in the the Stonewall National
Monument area at Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street at high noon!
The march proceeds up a major avenue and into Central Park on The
Great Lawn for the largest G.L.B.T. rally in history!
Tonight's event is co-hosted by Ann Northrop and Colin P. Ashley.
Forum is held at the charming Church In The
Village at the
corner of Seventh Avenue and West 13th Street. Ignite time
is @ 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. For more 411, visit: www.ReclaimPrideNYC.com.
Tuesday, March 26 -- DIANA ROSS: #1 STONEWALL
JUKEBOX SINGER and WORLD SUPERSTAR BIRTHDAY
To commemorate Miss Diana Ross's
birthday, among many other tributes, there are commemorations on
"Entertainment Tonight", "Extra", "Inside Edition" and even "Nightline"! A
documentray on "Diana Ross" will be released in nearly 1,000 movie
theatres across America. It
includes the remastered "Diana Ross Central Park Concert".
Wednesday, March 20
-- S.V.A. DINNER MEETING
with REPS of the NYS GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO @ 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 16 --
NEW
YORK CITY 258th ANNUAL ST. PATRICK's DAY PARADE on FIFTH AVENUE
Contrary to
misinformation, the New York City
St. Patrick's Parade
has always had Gay people in it as participants and, of course, at it
as
spectators! Currently, the G.L.B.T. Lavender
& Green Alliance is the official Gay Irish group in the St.
Pat's Parade. Special luminary marchers include NYS Governor
Andrew Cuomo.
The parade line-up is on Fifth
Avenue at 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan. Parade proceeds
up Fifth Avenue to East 80th Street. Note: Although
St. Pat's Day is on the 17th, the parade is 'never on a Sunday'!
Parade launches @ 11 a.m.
Wednesday, March 13
-- S.V.A. DINNER
MEETING with "S/W-50" PROJECT PRODUCERS @ 5 p.m.
Wednesday, March 13
-- SVA's SENIOR LEGAL
COUNSEL HALLY WEINER's 84th BIRTHDAY!
Monday, March 11 -- BROADWAY CARES PRESENTS
GENDER-BENDER MUSICAL "BROADWAY BACKWARDS"
Broadway
Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
produces this exciting and highly-talented "Broadway
Backwards" musical and theatrical event every year.
Executive (and hands-on) producer is Tom A. Viola.
Venue is the New Amsterdam Theatre at 214 West 42nd Street
in Times Square in Manhattan. Showtime @ 8 p.m. For
more 411, please visit: www.BroadwayCares.org.
Sunday, March 10 -- ARETHA FRANKLIN MUSICAL TRIBUTE on
TELEVISION SPECIAL
The "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin,
who
passed a half-year ago, was also the soul queen at the original
Stonewall Club in NYC! Watching this super special will acquaint
you with
many songs by Aretha in the 1967 to 1969 Stonewall Jukebox. They
include:
"I Ain't Never Loved A Man The Way I Love U", "Respect", "Dr.
Feelgood", "Baby I Love U", "A Natural
Woman", "Chain Of Fools", "Since You've Been
Gone", "Think", "The House That Jack Built", "See-Saw" and
"Share Your Love With Me"! Performers featured singing Aretha
songs are Patti LaBelle, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia
Keyes, Kelly Clarkson, Smokey Robinson, Belinda Carlisle, John Legend
and many
other singers. Showtime on CBS-TV is @ 9
p.m. until 11 p.m.
Saturday, March 9 -- CONGRESSMAN JOE CROWLEY'S ANNUAL
ST. PAT'S PARTY in QUEENS
Among the
confirmed guest speakers are Queens Borough President and Queens
Borough District Attorney candidate Melinda
R. Katz and former NYC Councilwoman and current Queens
Borough President candidate Elizabeth
Crowley.
The party venue is The Globe Tavern, a popular Irish
drinkery and eatery, at 4910 Skillman Acenue in Sunnyside, Queens.
Blast-off is @ 7 p.m.
Thursday, March 7 -- S.V.A. STAFF BIRTHDAY: RAINBOW
MELLIQUE, YOUTH-4-SVA ORGANIZER
Wednesday, March 6 --
STONEWALL JUKEBOX SINGER
BIRTHDAY: MARY WILSON of THE SUPREMES
Monday March 3 -- STONEWALL VET BIRTHDAY:
SVA's V.P. BERT COFFMAN from MANHATTAN
Friday, March 1 -- S.V.A. SOCIAL COMMITTEE SUPPER
MEETING at ROSSO'S RESTAURANT
Co-chairing the
S.V.A Social Committee's dinner
meeting are the SVA's director
Willson Henderson, S.V.A.
vice-president Bert Coffman
and SVA's general
manager AnDre M. Christie,
pulling up next to the eatery in his big BMW sedan. This
open-ended get2gether, with an
expansive agenda, will be approximately three hours complete with
Lambrusco and a four-course dinner! Glasses clang @ 4:30 p.m.