The same police squad raiding Stonewall also targeted underground comics.

Evidence

Zap, the most artful and scurrilous of underground comic books (front and back covers marked Adults Only!) was the subject of a sting operation by the same Public Morals Squad that raided the Stonewall. On August 25 and again on September 17, an undercover policeman purchased copies at the East Side and uptown New Yorker bookstores, arresting clerks and managers upon completion of the sale. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1484

Categorization

  • XREF: Poisitions the obscenity crackdown on underground comics as part of the same enforcement apparatus targeting the counterculture, including the Stonewall raid — relevant to the reader’s gentrification/counterculture thesis.