Yeah, I’m not a violent person. I think I’ve been in three physical altercations in my life, with this one being the only one as an adult. But it pays to be prepared.

I don’t know what they would have done, but the Village was full of gay bashing right then. It had become something like a team sport for a certain crowd. The Pink Panthers would be formed within a few months to fight back.

It’s the gender enforcing, though, that gets me — and not just the enforcing, the enforcing the superiority of maleness.