[3]: 98 They picketed at a Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts movie theater that was showing Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, which some feminists found offensive for its depiction of lesbian sadomasochism.
Lesbian Feminist Liberation's Jean O'Leary then insisted on responding by denouncing drag as misogynist and criticizing the march for being too male-dominated.
This prompted Lee Brewster of Queens Liberation Front to denounce anti-transgender lesbian feminists.
The increasingly angry crowd only calmed when Bette Midler, who heard these events reported on the radio in her Greenwich Village apartment, arrived, took the microphone, and began singing "Friends".
Ten women entered the building in pairs at 15-minute intervals, traveling by elevator to different floors before converging on the Standards and Practices offices.