edjmiller
Rafael
edjmiller

[eye roll] Yeah, sure.

Lisker’s obit. If he had a history of being a sports editor back to his days at the News, it stymies me that he was assigned the Stonewall piece. I’d say that brain cancer is some kind of karma.


To put your remark in proper perspective, in 1969 the Post was an enlightened, liberal newspaper light years ahead of the News.

How on EARTH can you characterize Lisker’s writing as “not bad”? It’s appallingly patronizing and homophobic. Not everyone at the Stonewall was a cross-dresser, and his characterization of the protesters as “girls” and “ladies in waiting” is an outrage. To give the late Lisker (he happily kicked at 54, in the ‘90s) a