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She got out and began throwing her weight against the police cruiser, which nearly tipped over. “There’s a moment-which is, to me, the critical moment-where the crowd screams,” Fouratt recalled. It is the moment when all of that stuffed-down feeling, all of that oppression that every gay person had ever had, gets released, in that crowd.” The growing crowd began fighting back, with Christopher Street regular Marsha P. SIZZLE: The Mafias involvement with gay bars is ironic on so many levels. “It was fun, almost,” Fouratt added, “and the police had no clue what to do because gay people never acted like this before. The Mafias involvement with gay bars is ironic on so many levels.