Times Square Gossip

The Stonewall Car There is only one authentic souvenier of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion and the answer is the outstanding, metallic blue convertible that the NYC Police Dep't illegally impounded on Friday night, June 27, 1969. This vehicle is, without a doubt, the equivalent of Rosa Parks's bus! Last month, the famous 1969 Stonewall Car was cheered by hundreds of thousands of spectators - as it is every year - along the grand route of the annual NY City GLBT Pride Parade on "the last Sunday in June"! The STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans' Association ("SVA") has ~finally~ launched its first fund-raising campaign for the infamous blue 1969 Cadillac De Ville convertible a.k.a. the "Stonewall Car" since 1999! It is one of the most famous cars in the United States! Can U think of one car that is more well-known other than, of course, President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Lincoln Continental convertible? Meanwhil...

**** NEW YORK CITY STORIES **** The Stonewall Car Williamson L. Henderson Marches With Stonewall Car Gay pride in New York City has once again ended, but every year the hit of the Gay Pride colorful celebration is the STONEWALL CAR. The now famous 1969 "Stonewall Car" was so named not by the STONEWALL Veterans' Association ("S.V.A."), which now owns the car, but by many people in the streets subsequent to the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion. They regularly drove the eye-catching, metallic blue, show-boating, big car down the full length of Christopher Street from Greenwich Avenue to West Street (West Side Highway) at the Hudson River in Greenwich Village, New York -- and still do -- and many Gay and other people yelled out -- and still do -- "The 'Stonewall Car'"! Stonewall Car Plate Those original participants and observers readily recognized the cool, unique, stand-out, metallic blue, big Cadillac conver...