The group gathered outside Uncle Charlie’s at 9:30 P.M. One patron at the nightspot, Frizzell Green, said he was standing at the bar when the blast went off in a trash can five to six feet from him, producing a cloud of smoke and sending debris in all directions.Īfter the NYPD basically dismissed the explosion the newly formed Queer Nation founded by by AIDS activists from ACT UP mobilized over a 1000 protesters in a matter of hours. Mohrmann described damage to the building as ”minor.” but at that time the NYPD also called it “unrelated” to a hate crime.
In the early morning of April 28 at least 3 men were injured when a pipe bomb exploded at about 12:10 A.M.
Uncle Charlie’s Downtown was located at 56 Greenwich Avenue and was a hugely popular gay video bar in the 1980’s and 1990’s, packed nightly where gay men would gather to drink, watch video, play pool and cruise. Thirty years ago today on April 28th, 1990 a homemade pipe-bomb exploded in a popular gay bar in the West Village of New York City which prompted a massive protest march on Manhattan’s Sixth Precinct station mobilized by the then newly formed Queen Nation and years later was found out to be one of the first terrorist bombings on U.S.
