![]() This is the California county where Anita Bryant reached out from Florida in the 1970s to keep “HOMOSEXUALS OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS.” Her O.C. There is a black gay community, a PAPI gay community, a Mexican and Chicano gay community, a Middle Eastern gay community. It’s home to Disneyland, the Magic Kingdom. A large working class the media never notices. This is in a huge community of disenfranchised residents. They ran the schools, the city councils, the criminal justice system. Long Beach is on the border of Orange County - O.C., where Christian televangelists and career politicians, extreme in opinion and corruption, have dominated for years. Maybe you still have the headaches - or worse - from your head being bashed. If you were one of the people there that night, it still sits on your record it destroyed your life. The Long Beach PD had once again busted a bunch of “faggots” with their billy clubs, charged everyone with sex offender raps and hosted a violent night in County Jail. The raid went unreported except from one gay mouth to the next. Dragged me through the fire exit with fifty others, another fifty people screaming Vámonos! and I was screaming Why? Melody ditched her shoes and I ditched mine and we ran along the train tracks, ducking between boxcars. Melody gave me that look, don’t stand there, and she dragged me. Something loud happened everyone started screaming.
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