For what it's worth, the late Dave Van Ronk was arrested for his part in the historic Stonewall Rebellion of 1969, when patrons fought back a police invasion of a gay men's bar in New York City. That marked the beginning of the activist Gay & Lesbian Rights Movement as we know it today in the USA. There had long been G&L organizations, but Stonewall marked the moment from which there was no turning back. Think of it as the liberation of the Bastille, the storming of the Winter Palace, or the Easter Rising.

I don't really know much about Dave's sexual orientation, other than that he was married at least twice, each time to a woman. But when it came to getting his licks in -- against the cops, that is -- he was on the front lines.