On Stonewall @ 45, in Brief

Today marks the 45th anniversary of the first night of riots we have come to call The Stonewall Riots. 

Stonewall didn't launch the gay rights movement or launch the first great gay migration from smaller towns and cities to the big ones, but it was a switch point in queer history toward a new awareness of the existence of others and the existence of possibilities--even possibilities you must create yourself, sometimes with violence deemed necessary at the time, in the moment, at the place, on that Sunday in June in 1969, and the nights that followed, and the years that followed that.

Small Town Boy Reprise 2014

To your soul

To your soul 

Crying. 

You leave in the morning 

With everything you own

in a little black case.

Alone on a platform 

The wind and the rain 

On a sad and lonely face.

Mother will never understand

Why you had to leave,

But the answers you seek 

will never be found at home.

For the love that you need 

Will never be found at home.

Run away turn away 

Run away turn away 

Run away 

Run away turn away 

Run away turn away

Run away

To your soul

To your soul

Crying to your soul

Crying to your soul

Cry, boy, cry

Cry, boy, cry

Cry, boy, cry

Cry, boy, cry

Crying to your soul

Crying to your soul

To your soul

To your soul

To your soul

Songwriters: BRONSKI, STEVE/STEINBACHEK, LARRY AKA LARRY COLE/SOMERVILLE, JIMMY