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by pessimizer 486 days ago
If that's the most obvious example:

> The problem is, the law technically never existed. Instead, accounts suggest that police generally used old, often unrelated laws to target LGBT people throughout the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s.

1st hit: https://www.history.com/news/stonewall-riots-lgbtq-drag-thre...

1 comments

I never said it was a law, it's a rule of thumb used by police to harass and arrest gender non-conforming people. You seem determined to find some formal law that made their existence illegal, and I'm curious why.