Julius

were you going?

I was going to Julius's and the Ninth Circle.

And I would go back and forth.

They were on the same street, on 10th Street.

I said, hey, I'll come out and help.

And

this was the conversation that was happening at Julius's Uncle Charlie's.

So you were just hearing people talk.

And for Leitsch and his allies, it finally provided a focus for their strategy.

Imagine it's April 20th, 1966, around 3:00 in the afternoon inside a Greenwich Village bar called Julius's.

It's no longer lunch, not yet happy hour.

You're a member of the New York Mattachine Society.

There's no use arguing with Craig when he gets like this.

For now, you'll continue with Mattachine to protest in a safe, constructive, legal way.

The newspaper coverage generated by Dick Leitsch and Mattachine's creative demonstration at Julius's, a tactic borrowed directly from the Black civil rights movement, forced the State Liquor Authority into a corner.

In nineteen sixty-seven, the year following the sip-in at Julius's, a New York court decided that the State Liquor Authority could not revoke a bar's license on the basis of serving LGBTQ customers.