Valuetainment - June 25, 2025


The History of Pride Month & Ties to Italian Mafia - Stonewall

Topics
Italian Mafia and Stonewall Club
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Patrick Bet-David
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Marsha Johnson Roy Cohen Joe Biden Lesbian Pride Month Fat Tony Loria Hillary Clinton Barack Obama Stonewall Salerno Epstein
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The Italian Mafia owned the only gay club in New York City, Stonewall, and it was a cash cow for the Genovese family. The problem was, it was dirty, it smelled horrible, it had no running water, and the place smelled horrible. They made money by blackmailing people who went to the club.

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00:00:00.000 Do you know the Italian Mafia gets credit indirectly for the gay pride month? 0.60
00:00:04.020 Did you know this?
00:00:04.600 Did you know in New York City, the mob ran by Fat Tony Loria, not Salerno, the boss,
00:00:10.540 Fat Tony Loria, who was connected to the Genovese family,
00:00:13.580 they owned the only gay club in town. 0.99
00:00:16.900 And it was dirty, it was nasty, no water, toilet, the place smelled horrible. 0.97
00:00:22.160 They overcharged for drinks, they made money. 0.90
00:00:24.760 It was a form of having blackmail of people that would go to this underground gay club 0.99
00:00:29.100 because at that time, you couldn't go to a gay club.
00:00:32.240 If they found out you had any kind of things, you could get a fine.
00:00:35.280 You could have a lot of different things that can happen.
00:00:37.140 There was this one club that Italian Mafia decided to open up called Stonewall.
00:00:41.180 That led to the current pride month that we're celebrating today.
00:00:46.060 So thank you to the Italian Mafia for starting the pride month. 1.00
00:00:51.760 We're going to talk about that today.
00:00:59.100 If you get value out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel.
00:01:05.780 So by the way, I want to show you this article written by the New York Daily News on July 6th of 69.
00:01:11.480 Tell me if they can write anything like this today.
00:01:13.880 You ready?
00:01:15.040 Homo nest rated.
00:01:17.340 Queen bees are stinging mad.
00:01:20.720 Imagine if New York Times wrote that today.
00:01:23.020 Okay, imagine if they...
00:01:23.860 I don't even know if the Babylon Bee can write that today.
00:01:26.240 However, in the 50s and 60s, you got to know the climate.
00:01:29.580 At that time, if you were gay and you went to a bar, they couldn't serve you alcohol.
00:01:34.600 If they did, they can revoke that bar's license.
00:01:37.320 You just couldn't do it, period, at this time.
00:01:39.320 In 1952, just to kind of tell you what it was qualified, that is like 73 years ago.
00:01:44.460 Not that long ago, homosexuality was seen, was listed as a sociopathic personality disturbance in DSM-1.
00:01:52.720 And just until 1973 is when the APA removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in December of 73.
00:02:03.460 That's when they did it.
00:02:04.300 So imagine 50s, 60s.
00:02:05.380 This is happening.
00:02:05.980 The mob looks at this and says, look, we don't have a liquor license.
00:02:09.640 Open this place up underground.
00:02:12.320 Sell whatever kind of cheap liquor that we can make to sell these guys.
00:02:15.900 Overcharge it.
00:02:16.500 It's going to be fine. 0.51
00:02:17.280 The place is nasty.
00:02:18.820 Smells horrible.
00:02:19.840 Things are going bad. 0.98
00:02:20.760 And this place was a hotspot for drag queens, transgender youth, many of them allegedly working as prostitutes that you would read about. 0.99
00:02:30.600 New York's poor and homeless. 0.86
00:02:32.100 Stonewall was a cash cow for the Genovese family.
00:02:34.340 They're making a lot of money coming in underground.
00:02:37.580 Wealthy, influential, closeted men would go there.
00:02:41.620 And imagine, we hear a lot of bribery stuff, Diddy, Epstein, all this stuff.
00:02:45.920 But you go there and you knew this.
00:02:48.160 You had re-read stories about this through Roy Cohen, that Roy Cohen would put parties and a lot of influential people would come.
00:02:53.580 They would go into the bedroom and then boom.
00:02:55.380 Then they get the video and then you're watching.
00:02:57.140 Okay, I have this on you.
00:02:58.320 You better do this favor for me.
00:02:59.560 Pass this bill.
00:03:00.240 Pass this permit.
00:03:01.280 There's some kind of control there as well.
00:03:03.120 Now it gets out of control.
00:03:04.500 This entire time they're paying the cops to bribe them.
00:03:07.660 Leave us alone.
00:03:08.400 Leave us alone.
00:03:09.020 Leave us alone.
00:03:09.740 All that is happening until all of a sudden, crisis breaks out at this place.
00:03:15.700 Everything's going good for these guys until June 28, 1969.
00:03:18.340 Whether it's because they stopped paying the bribes to the cops or the cops are just finally sick of it saying this is getting rowdy.
00:03:24.540 People are showing up.
00:03:25.280 We got to put a stop to this.
00:03:26.640 They come in to want to shut this place down.
00:03:28.800 So they come in.
00:03:29.560 They're like, hey, what's going on over here?
00:03:30.780 They bring cops to take the transgender or guys that are dressed as a woman, whatever you want to call her, into the bathroom saying, what are you? 1.00
00:03:38.460 Are you? 0.71
00:03:39.200 Okay, this is a guy.
00:03:40.060 Take him over here.
00:03:40.700 Okay, this is a lady. 1.00
00:03:41.560 She's fine.
00:03:42.060 Whatever.
00:03:42.380 They're going through this process, right?
00:03:44.180 And then all of a sudden, people are getting mad.
00:03:46.120 They're getting upset.
00:03:47.180 They're throwing stuff at the place.
00:03:48.800 Rock 600 people show up.
00:03:50.540 It's getting chaotic at this point.
00:03:52.860 They're tearing their entire, the place that they go to, to congregate, to hang out.
00:03:57.340 The only place that they have that's only two miles away from Studio 54, they're destroying the facility.
00:04:01.980 So at this point, think about the cops.
00:04:03.260 They're having bricks being thrown at them.
00:04:04.660 They're like, guys, what are we going to do?
00:04:05.720 They barricade themselves inside the club.
00:04:08.440 So cops are inside the club now, inside Stonewall.
00:04:10.680 The whole smelly, everything that's going on, they're inside.
00:04:13.740 What do they do?
00:04:14.500 The place they go to, they try to set the place on fire.
00:04:17.160 This is where the whole thing, Pride Month, started with this.
00:04:19.480 This was the beginning.
00:04:20.680 Boom! 0.99
00:04:21.900 Riots protesting, similar to BLM protesting.
00:04:23.980 Obviously, the motive was a different motive, but that's how this whole protesting got started back on June 28, 1969.
00:04:30.520 So a lot of times, you'll hear a name, a face being used from this whole stone wall that, you know, 4 a.m., this is going on.
00:04:36.720 They're rioting, 600 people showing up, all this other stuff.
00:04:39.080 You'll hear Malcolm Michaels Jr., a.k.a. Marsha Johnson.
00:04:44.540 Your face of this, so brave.
00:04:47.200 While, you know, many reports say that, you know, he was passed out down the street on heroin, doesn't show up till 2 o'clock in the morning.
00:04:54.300 Protests started very early, but this is the face of it, right?
00:04:57.120 Oh, my God.
00:04:57.700 No, it's not that he was on heroin.
00:04:59.100 Those are the claims that they're not accurate.
00:05:01.820 And a lot of times, they'll say, well, you know, Marsha Johnson was a transgender and all this other stuff.
00:05:06.040 You can go research it yourself.
00:05:07.900 Marsha Johnson never called himself a transgender.
00:05:11.260 He would say transvesti or a drag queen or a gay man, but he hadn't gone through the whole procedure.
00:05:17.260 But they meet the story. 0.87
00:05:18.000 So this was going on, and they're rioting and they're protesting.
00:05:21.080 They're turning cars over. 0.90
00:05:22.240 I mean, just visualize these strong gay men turning it over. 1.00
00:05:25.540 Like, that's some powerful stuff to be able to do. 0.99
00:05:27.520 I mean, setting garbage on fire, you know, pelted of officers with bricks and other debris.
00:05:32.380 All of this happening at the same time. 0.75
00:05:34.040 This is an intense protesting with a lot of tough gay men and women that are there on that date.
00:05:38.440 So at this point, it's crazy.
00:05:39.520 The riots go until 4 o'clock in the morning.
00:05:41.400 13 people are arrested.
00:05:42.580 This riot continues for four days, nonstop.
00:05:45.340 Everyone's reporting on it.
00:05:46.520 Newsweek's writing about it.
00:05:47.960 Cops are telling what happened about it.
00:05:49.520 Some of them don't want to admit to it.
00:05:50.660 Some of them will tell you what's going on.
00:05:52.400 A year later, this becomes a ritual.
00:05:55.140 Every year on Christopher Street, let's do this protesting out there and go and do our pride.
00:06:02.640 You know, they don't call it a pride event.
00:06:04.000 They call it the gay rights activists that they held us once here called the Liberation Day March.
00:06:08.580 OK, became the first ever gay pride parade.
00:06:13.080 And then obviously spreads all across the country.
00:06:16.100 So now this movement continues nationwide.
00:06:18.760 70s, 80s, 80s.
00:06:20.220 You got the AIDS epidemic, which roughly 89,000 people died in America.
00:06:24.300 87,000 to 89,000 people died in America because of AIDS worldwide.
00:06:27.140 400,000.
00:06:27.720 It's a topic of discussion.
00:06:29.380 Everyone's talking about it.
00:06:30.580 Then in 1999, the man had a very good friend that was very helpful to him at the office, Bill Clinton.
00:06:38.560 He decides to declare June as the Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.
00:06:42.780 Then a close friend of his, a man named Barack Obama, he becomes president.
00:06:47.500 He decides to take it to a whole different level.
00:06:49.700 And he expands the proclamation to LGBT Pride Month and added representation, of course, for bisexuals and transgenders.
00:06:58.460 Then Joe Biden, the great Joe Biden, he comes in.
00:07:02.920 He takes it to a whole different level in 2021.
00:07:05.400 He designated it as LGBTQ plus Pride Month, further inclusion for queers and ever-expanding plus community.
00:07:14.620 I mean, every time there's a liberal president, they just added new letters to it.
00:07:17.560 And then by today, while you're watching this, if you go and ask on ChatGBT or Google, how many days do we have dedicated to this?
00:07:26.760 125 days a year, 34% of the year is dedicated to celebrating sex and gender minorities.
00:07:33.720 We even have a gay uncle day per year. 0.88
00:07:35.620 If you have an uncle that's gay, you can tell him we celebrate you once a year.
00:07:38.800 You can text him, send him a nice gift. 0.96
00:07:40.640 But that happens in America today.
00:07:43.000 Can you imagine this kind of stuff that we're talking about?
00:07:45.160 This is America to you, right?
00:07:46.600 So why is this important?
00:07:47.980 Think about it this way.
00:07:48.740 I'm going to give you a crazy stat here for you to think about.
00:07:50.500 In 1960s, do you know what percentage of Americans had a child under the age of 18?
00:07:57.960 1960 had child under the age of 18.
00:08:01.960 44% of Americans had a kid in their house under the age of 18.
00:08:08.080 Okay, you know what that number is today?
00:08:10.500 24%.
00:08:10.900 How do we go from 1960, 44%, to today?
00:08:15.800 24%, and then this becomes a movement that we're kind of like supporting, and then people
00:08:21.940 are sitting there saying, well, Americans are not having a lot of babies.
00:08:24.620 We need illegal immigrants to come over here because we need labor. 1.00
00:08:27.380 We need workforce.
00:08:28.460 Or maybe we need to sit here and say, hey, listen, guys, awesome. 0.99
00:08:33.000 You chose to be gay. 1.00
00:08:34.520 It's your private life, whatever you want to do. 0.71
00:08:36.380 We don't need to say, I don't need to advertise what I like to do in the bedroom myself.
00:08:40.000 It's none of your business.
00:08:40.700 Just like whatever you want to do in your bedroom, it's none of my business.
00:08:44.460 Do whatever you want to do. 0.98
00:08:46.320 Go buy whatever sex toys, man, woman, do whatever you want to do. 0.95
00:08:50.300 You don't need to advertise it. 0.98
00:08:51.840 That's for you.
00:08:52.920 Let's give you one day per year.
00:08:54.760 You know, we can put it on February 30th.
00:08:56.620 We can give any kind of a day for you to choose.
00:08:59.260 Obviously, I'm giving you a hard time.
00:09:00.560 I know the map.
00:09:01.800 I'm a Syrian.
00:09:02.400 We came up with a lot of this stuff.
00:09:04.200 But you need 125 days?
00:09:07.060 Seriously?
00:09:08.080 And we're wondering why, you know, we went from 44% to 24%?
00:09:12.220 Seriously, from 24?
00:09:13.560 Why don't we recognize parents?
00:09:15.460 Why don't we recognize moms, dads for what they're doing? 1.00
00:09:18.120 Why can't we do that?
00:09:19.100 Why aren't we doing that part?
00:09:20.580 What do you think would happen is for every day, we put a single father day.
00:09:26.000 Okay?
00:09:26.580 We recognize fathers that don't, are not that big fathers.
00:09:30.000 They raise their kids.
00:09:30.860 What if we put all these different things that we recognize?
00:09:34.120 Kids, parents, working together, nucleus family.
00:09:37.640 We're not doing that.
00:09:38.680 So, of course, when you recognize these types of numbers, and then now you hear percentages
00:09:43.840 that we're being fed.
00:09:45.140 Did you know 9.3% of the U.S. population as of Gallup poll, 2025, part of the LGBTQ community?
00:09:52.840 9.3%.
00:09:53.660 I don't remember that.
00:09:55.320 When I went to school, I went to high school.
00:09:57.160 Our school had 4,400 kids. 0.96
00:09:58.720 Maybe we had five kids that were gay. 0.95
00:10:01.560 Maybe. 0.99
00:10:02.500 Yes, we had a couple gay students.
00:10:04.340 Yes, we kind of knew who it was.
00:10:06.440 9.3%.
00:10:07.720 You know what that means?
00:10:08.500 You mean to tell me 440 kids were gay?
00:10:11.380 Really?
00:10:12.020 You think so?
00:10:13.000 Or is this starting to convert and advertise and get into schools and all this other stuff?
00:10:18.620 Is that what happened here?
00:10:19.780 Right now, you're seeing all the numbers on funding for gay pride and pride month stuff
00:10:24.480 that's declining and all across San Francisco, all these other places.
00:10:27.940 They used to get more money.
00:10:28.760 They're not getting it anymore.
00:10:30.100 Is it because they're afraid?
00:10:31.900 Or is it getting to the point that some people are saying, look, man, can we just go back
00:10:34.840 to common sense?
00:10:35.760 Do whatever you want to do in your personal life.
00:10:37.840 It's not my business.
00:10:39.560 It's not.
00:10:40.220 But you came from a man and a woman who chose to have a kid.
00:10:46.260 Okay?
00:10:46.880 That's how that happened.
00:10:48.340 We need to recognize more of that.
00:10:51.340 Husband and wives, families.
00:10:53.340 If we do that, we have a fighting chance of bringing that number back up to us, having
00:10:58.180 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 kids per versus we're down to 1.9, 1.7.
00:11:04.220 And the moment you're no longer at 2.1, it starts going like this.
00:11:07.420 That's kind of where we are today.
00:11:08.400 So, you may or may not agree with what I'm saying.
00:11:11.280 This is history telling you.
00:11:12.320 So, guess what?
00:11:13.480 If you know somebody, part of the Genovese family, call them right now. 1.00
00:11:17.800 Say, thank you, uncle.
00:11:18.880 If you got value out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel.
00:11:21.560 If you enjoyed this video, I did another video a couple years ago about the dark side of
00:11:25.200 the LGBTQ, who's funding it, the money, the dark money, where it's coming from. 0.51
00:11:29.460 You'll enjoy watching this video.
00:11:30.640 Take care, everyone.
00:11:31.280 Bye-bye.
00:11:31.520 Bye-bye.