WI: Hardhat Riots Spread

I'd like to see the Hardhats take on the 1970s gay rights movement. Bonus points if they try to intervene in something like the White Night Riots, and end up getting their macho asses kicked by a bunch of Molotov-tossing "fairies".

Or they try to intimidate some gay bars somewhere into closing down, and get a cold hard lesson in realpolitik when their union reps call them up and say "Hey, idiots, our mob buddies OWN those goddam bars!"

Maybe an ATL Stonewall Riot where they get the shit kicked out of them?
 
Maybe an ATL Stonewall Riot where they get the shit kicked out of them?

You mean the Hardhats get the shit kicked out of them? Yeah, that would be especially funny at Stonewall, since the beating could take place at the hands of drag queens.

And the mob connection would work there, since IIRC Stonewall was a notorious mafia front.

Mind you, you'd need to move Stonewall forward by about a year, if it's gonna jibe with the first appearance of the Hardhats.
 

TinyTartar

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For what its worth, the entire nature of this hypothetical movement is that its opponents are getting too big for their britches and are outright offending them, and they want to hit back. The gays by this point were not conspicuous enough to cause that kind of reaction like the student protesters were.

The Hardhats would be acting more like a counter force than something that scours the streets of New York looking for people they don't like; they simply didn't have that kind of organization.

The Women's Lib protests present an interesting contrast if this movement was to become nationwide and more aggressive. Obviously, these guys would be pro Pageants, but they also wouldn't really be able to charge and beat the shit out of a bunch of women for obvious reasons. Maybe a female wing of this movement could develop; its not like the sentiment was not there.
 
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