1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,599 Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, Eve's here. We're doubling up today with two 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: events in history. On with the show. Hi, I'm Eves, 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 1: and welcome to this Day in History Class, a show 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: that uncovers a little bit more about history every day. 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: The day was a one nineteen sixty six, four men 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: from the Madison Society, one of the earliest gay rights 7 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: groups in the United States, stage a so called sip 8 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: in at Julius's, a tavern in New York City. At 9 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: the time, gay people were discriminated against in bars. There 10 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: was not an outright law that prohibited bars from serving 11 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: gay folks, but the New York State Liquor Authority did 12 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 1: require bars to only serve people who had orderly conduct, 13 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: so bar staff would often deem same sex displays of 14 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: affection disorderly and refuse gay people service. If a are 15 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: did serve gay people, it faced the threat of having 16 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: its liquor license revoked and being raided by police. So 17 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: to protest this discrimination, member of the Madison Society New 18 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 1: York Chapter Dick Leitch, decided to stage a sif in 19 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: inspired by the sit ins of the Civil Rights movement. 20 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: His fellow Madison Society members Craig Rodwell and John Timmins 21 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: joined him and the demonstration. The plan was for them 22 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: to go to a bar and tell the bartender that 23 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: they were gay, and if the bartender refused them service, 24 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: then they would sue the bar and the liquor authority. 25 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: So the men invited four newspaper reporters to cover the 26 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: sip in, and just after noon on April nineteen sixty six, 27 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: they met with the reporters at the Ukrainian American Village Hall, 28 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: the bar they planned on starting at that proudly displayed 29 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: a sign saying if you're gay, please stay away, but 30 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: the bar shut down after they realized reporters were hanging 31 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: around for a gay rights demonstration, so the men moved 32 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: the party across the street to a club called The Dom, 33 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: which also was closed. Finally, they got to a bar 34 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: called Howard Johnson's and set in a corner booth. They 35 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: handed the waitress and note that set the following, we 36 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: are homosexuals. We believe that a place of public accommodation 37 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: has an obligation to serve an orderly person, and that 38 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: we are entitled to service so long as we are orderly. 39 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: But they didn't get the response they were hoping for. 40 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: Not only did the guys get their drinks, they got 41 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: them on the house. They moved on to a tiki 42 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: bar owned by the mafia called Waikiki, where they were 43 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: also served without question. So they decided to go to Julius's, 44 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: which was a gay bar, but had been raided just 45 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: days before, so it was under the threat of having 46 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: its liquor license taken away. Madison Society member Randy Wicker 47 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: joined them at the bar. Sure enough, the bartender at 48 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:59,679 Speaker 1: Julius's refused them service after they announced they were gay. 49 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 1: The New York Times issued an article called three deviats 50 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: and by exclusion by bars the next day. Two weeks later, 51 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: the Village Voice ran a story on the event, since 52 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: the Sippen got some coverage. Donald S. Hosteader, the chairman 53 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: of the State Liquor Authority, responded by saying that s 54 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: l A never threatened to revoke the liquor licenses of 55 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: bars that served gay people, and that the discretion to 56 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: serve was left up to the bartenders. But soon the 57 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: Commission on Human Rights stepped in, saying that it had 58 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: jurisdiction over the matter and that gay people have the 59 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: right to be served in bars. The Madison Society went 60 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: on to sue bars that refused gay people service in 61 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: New Jersey, which led to a state Supreme Court case 62 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: ruling declaring quote well behaved homosexuals could not be denied service. 63 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty seven, New York state courts struck down 64 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 1: the idea that gay people were inherently disorderly. The liquor 65 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: authority could no longer use that as a reason to 66 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: evoke licenses, and in the years after the ruling, more 67 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: licensed gay bars popped up. But even though gay folks 68 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: could now be served alcohol at bars same sex displays 69 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: of affection, we're still outlawed, and police continue to harass 70 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: and raid gay bars. Three years after the stip, in 71 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: arrayed at a gay bar in Greenwich Village called the 72 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: Stone Wall End led to an uprising pivotal and the 73 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: l g B t Q rights movement. I'm Eve step 74 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: Cote and hopefully you know a little more about history 75 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: today than you did yesterday. And if you'd like to 76 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: follow us on social media, you can find us at 77 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: T d i h C Podcast on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. 78 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: Thanks for showing up. We'll meet here again tomorrow. Hey everyone, 79 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: I'm a and welcome to This Day in History Class, 80 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: a podcast that proves history happens every day. The day 81 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: was a nineteen thirty four the Daily Mail printed a 82 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: photo of what was said to be the Lockness Monster. 83 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,039 Speaker 1: The image, known as the Surgeon's Photograph, is widely believed 84 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 1: to be a hoax. Lockness is a lake in Scotland. 85 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: The myth of the crypto known as the Lockness Monster 86 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 1: may have its origins all the way back in the 87 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 1: first century CE. The Picks people's who lived in Scotland 88 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: many centuries ago, carved an image of a beast with 89 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: an elongated beak, and Scottish folklore does contain stories about 90 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: mythical water creatures, such as the Kelpie, which is a 91 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: shape shifting water spirit. Stories around mythical creatures inhabiting Lockness specifically, 92 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: we're also documented hundreds of years ago. According to a 93 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: biography about St. Columba, the Saint encountered a beast in 94 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: the River Nests. The River Nest is a river at 95 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: the northern end of Lockness. There were several other references 96 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: to large mysterious creatures in Lockness documented before the twentieth century, 97 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: but the modern legend of the Lockness Monster began to 98 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: form in the nineteen thirties. In April of nineteen thirty three, 99 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: Aldi and John McKay were driving home when they reportedly 100 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: saw a huge animal in lock nest On May sewond. 101 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 1: The Inverness Courier published a story on the sighting. The 102 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: story was written by a reporter named Alex Campbell and 103 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: its headline was strange spectacle on Lockness What was It? 104 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 1: In the article, Campbell reported that the creature's body resembled 105 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: a whales. After quote rolling and plunging for fully a minute, 106 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:56,119 Speaker 1: the creature quote disappeared in a boiling mass of foam. 107 00:06:56,279 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: Campbell's story was embellished later the mackay's clarified their siding. 108 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,840 Speaker 1: Aldi saw an object of some sort, but John only 109 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: saw splashing, and Aldi saw two dark humps, not one 110 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: body that resembled a whale. After the story was published, 111 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: interest in the legend of the Luckness Monster grew. Some 112 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: people were skeptical of the existence of a monster, while 113 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: others reported more sightings of the beast. London newspapers sent 114 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: correspondence to Scotland. A circus offered a reward for capturing 115 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: the monster, and some people claimed seeing the creature on land. 116 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 1: The Daily Mail even hired big game hunter Marmaduke Weatherall 117 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: to find the monster. He reported finding the footprints of 118 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: a large animal, but plaster casts of the footprints were 119 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: sent to the Natural History Museum in London for analysis. 120 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: The museum determined that the footprints had been made with 121 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: a stuffed hippo foot that may have been the base 122 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: of an umbrella stand or ash tray, but eyewitness accounts 123 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: continued to pop up. In four it was alleged that 124 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: English physician Robert Kenneth Wilson photograph after the creature. The 125 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: photo was published in The Daily Mail on April ninety four. 126 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: The blurry image appeared to show a creature with a 127 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: long neck, small head and back emerging from the waters 128 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: of Lochness. Over the years, skeptics dismissed the object in 129 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: the image as driftwood or an elephant. Others challenged the 130 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: scale of the object in the photo, which is often 131 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: presented cropped. Others believe that it is a hoax that 132 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: was part of an elaborate revenge plot by Marmaduke Weatherall, 133 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: but there were also people who believed the photo was 134 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: of some unidentified creature. Some have suggested that Nessie, as 135 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,079 Speaker 1: the monster is known, is a police star that survived extinction. 136 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: Many people have flocked to Lockness to investigate the myth 137 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: or in the hopes of getting a glimpse of the monster. 138 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: Researchers have even used camera surveillance and sonar to explore Lockness. 139 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: There's no conclusive evidence that proves the Lockness Monster exists, 140 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: but the legend persists. I'm each of code and hopefully 141 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: you know a little more about history today than you 142 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 1: did yesterday. 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