Approaching his 67th birthday, Michael-Anthony Nozzi is one of a dwindling number of eye-witnesses to the start of the Stonewall Inn riots. That fateful night in New York 50 years ago was his irst in the Big Apple.
“That was my introduction to not only New York City, but also to what it was like to be a gay person in the United States of America in 1969,“ he says from Los Angeles where he now lives.
Having been much younger than many of the other regular patrons of the maia-owned gay dive-bar leaves Michael in the position to still be here to share his story of that weekend of 28-29 June.