The bartender then places his hand over the glass and says, “I can’t serve you.” At that very moment, a photographer alerted by the activists snaps a picture. A bespectacled bartender places an empty glass in front of them, and the men announce a once-unspeakable truth - they’re homosexuals. The men, members of an early gay-rights advocacy group called the Mattachine Society, take a seat facing bottles filled with booze.
