- Joined
- Nov 9, 2018
The geezer is “Miss” Major Griffin-Gracy, a liar and con artist who claims he was at the Stonewall riots in spite of there being zero evidence of his participation. He can’t even prove he was in New York State at the time of the riots— he’s a longtime native of Chicago. He is not named in any of the police records or newspaper articles of the event and his claims only came to light in the 2000s when he saw that Ray “Sylvia” Rivera was making banking and getting attention for lying about being a Stonewall veteran. None of the actual Stonewall vets or historians acknowledge his claim.
He also says he was part of the Attica riots in spite of not having an arrest record or conviction in New York State. IIRC he’s since stopped lying about Attica (the riot participants being far better documented than Stonewall) when people started questioning his claims.
He still claims it on his twitter bio