The tombstone reads:
NEVER AGAIN NEVER FORGET6 JULY 1943 22 JUNE 1988A GAY VIETNAM VETERANWHEN I WAS IN THE MILITARYTHEY GAVE ME A MEDAL FOR KILLING TWO MENAND A DISCHARGE FOR LOVING ONE.
Earthworks was a store that sold drug paraphernalia "Everything but the Weed", there was a corner in the store dedicated to selling gay books and periodicals. This corner eventually spun off to become an independent bookstore called "Lambda Rising"