Dick Leitsch on distributing Mattachine flyers about police arrests

Dick Leitsch discusses how the Mattachine Society spread the word about police harassment to New York’s LGBTQ community. During the 1960s, police entrapment was a common tactic to arrest homosexuals. The police would pose as men cruising in the street, and then arrest any men who approached them with sexual intent. Leitsch was one of the first leaders of the Mattachine Society. Video from the National Park Service's Stonewall Oral History Project, in partnership with the LGBT Community Center and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.