Vanguard Revisited - GLBT Historical Society

I’m not like you Gotti, Until those things happen whenever that may be. I’m going to just
smoke my weed, handle my priorities possibly giving the “fuck you finger” to whom it
may ever concern, get the money that is to be made here in California, and remember to
remember those who stuck with me and supported me the entire way through this “totally
fucked up” phenomena and “hand of cards” dubbed “life”......now that that’s finished lets
go to Civic and smoke a blunt I can’t thinking about this shit for too long without wanting
to go off on every gay person I see for the rest of the day ..... are they really going to read
this”
1:2 1966
1:10
1967
“There was so much discrimination that even, the gay kids on the streets eating at these really
sleazy joints...For nineteen cents you’d have a hamburger, but you weren’t allowed to eat
there, and the manager would yell at you, saying—‘Faggot, eat your hamburger outside.”
"You’ve lost everything, you’ve lost your family, you may have lost your boyfriend, cause he
OD’d. You may have lost your freedom, being busted for petty crimes. And you can’t even
eat a damn hamburger?” And it just really got to me… My friends overdosing, and not even
being able to eat a goddamn hamburger in a sleaze joint.”
-Joel Roberts (oral history with Joey Plaster, 2010)