Pink News journalist. This is such an odd thing to write to an American veteran of the Stonewall riots. Don't you have *any* respect for those that made the world safer for LGBT people? He faced police batons, you've faced misgendering. https://twitter.com/vicparsons_/status/1247819838988435457

Not only is Fred a Stonewall Veteran, he organised the first Pride parade in New York. The sheer guts it must have taken to do that, at that time. And as @JuliaDRobertson points out in her emotional piece, he was always a loyal friend and ally to lesbians. https://thevelvetchronicle.com/stonewall-vet-fred-sargeant-on-ellen-broidy-this-is-one-of-those-important-unknown-stories/