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Lt. Dan Choi and activist lawyer Yetta Kurland came out to the Village Voice’s strike fund party last night, expressing appreciation of the Voice on behalf of the city’s LGBT population. Lt. Choi is a gay West Point graduate like Lucian Truscott, the famous Voice reporter who covered the Stonewall riots for the paper in 1969.

YETTA KURLAND
“We’re here, we’re queer, we’re in solidarity with the Village Voice, our sisters and brothers fighting to be recognized as a union, standing up for journalists, for writers, for all of us who create. Wonderful writing to express ourselves and allow ourselves to be in existence, in New York City, in the West Village and East Village. You guys, win your struggle!”
 
LT. DAN CHOI
“The Village Voice has been our voice for decades, and I was proud to know that Stonewall was first reported on by a West Point graduate, Lucian Truscott, who just a few months after graduating from West Point went to Stonewall and wrote for the Village Voice fearlessly! And with that same sense of fearlessness, I want to add my voice to the workers and to the writers of the Village Voice, who are struggling for that basic recognition of their work. Their work is important. Their work is the First Amendment. We fought for the First Amendment in this uniform, and I am very proud, very honored, and I am completely dignified in my righteous stance with those righteous workers.”