The work refers to piles of building bricks Mr. Othoniel saw lining the roads in India, but also the 1969 Stonewallriots in New York that are often seen as a turning point in gay liberation.
But because the history of the gay civil rights movement has generally not been taken seriously by educators nor by the media, people are often uncertain about what exactly Stonewall was: why did the StonewallRiots occur and what do they mean?
Saturday's shooting scene is a few blocks from the Stonewall Inn, the site of 1969 riots that helped give rise to gay rights when patrons reacted to police harassment.