“LGBT history is written, like most history, by the victors, those with the means and those with connections to power.” HistoryLgbtqiaStonewall Book:The Stonewall Reader Source: The Stonewall Reader
“It has been over forty years since the Gay Liberation Front first took trans seriously, but the gay men who wore those shirts with the polo players or alligator emblems didn't want trans people as the representation of their community. Their revisionist history has been accepted into popular culture because they were the ones with connections to publishers, the influence, as well as the money and time to sit back and write about what "really" happened.” HistoryLgbtqiaStonewall Book:The Stonewall Reader Source: The Stonewall Reader
“No, this wasn’t a 1960s student riot. Out there were the streets. There were no nice dorms for sleeping. No school cafeteria for certain food. No affluent parents to send us checks. There was a ghetto riot on home turf. We already had our war wounds. So this was just another battle. Nobody thought of it as history, herstory, my-story, your-story, or our-story. We were being denied a place to dance together. That’s all. The total charisma of a revolution in our CONSCIOUSNESS rising from the gutter to the gut to the heart and the mind was here. Non-existence (or part existence) was coming into being, and being into becoming. Our Mother Stonewall was giving birth to a new era and we were the midwives.” ActivismLgbtHomosexualityGay RightsLgbtqiaLgbt RightsStonewallStonewall Riots Book:The Stonewall Reader Source: The Stonewall Reader