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“The spirit that emerged outside a Mafia-run bar in 1969 became the pulse of the gay community and inspired not just an annual parade but ways to express gay pride in individual lives. Stonewall happens every day.”

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Book:Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights

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“For some historians, drag queens are not the ideal representatives of the LGBT community. Oppression within oppression was and is still of concern. Even recently, with the transgender issue finally being taken seriously, there is still a backlash from the community about including them in the general gay movement.”

Stonewall Drag Queens

Book:The Stonewall Reader

Source: The Stonewall Reader

“Then everything changed with the Stonewall uprising toward the end of June 1969. And it wasn’t all those crewnecked white boys in the Hamptons and the Pines who changed things, but the black kids and Puerto Rican transvestites who came down to the Village on the subway...”

Stonewall

Book:The Stonewall Reader

Source: The Stonewall Reader

“I was with a group of queens, and we started walking up Christopher Street going, “Gay power! Gay power! Gay power!” We walked all the way to Eighth Avenue, and then we all looked at each other and said, “What do we do now?” So we turned round and walked all the way back down Christopher Street, still yelling, “Gay power!”

Stonewall

Book:The Stonewall Reader

Source: The Stonewall Reader

“The queens took the lead in the Stonewall Riots. They walked around in semi-drag with teased hair and false eyelashes on and they didn’t give a shit what anybody thought about them. What did they have to lose? Absolutely fucking nothing.”

Stonewall

Book:The Stonewall Reader

Source: The Stonewall Reader

“This place was the “ART” that gave form to the feelings of our heartbeats. Here the consciousness of knowing you “belonged” nestled into that warm feeling of finally being HOME. And Home engenders love and loyalty quite naturally. So, we loved the Stonewall.”

Lgbt Homosexuality Gay Pride Stonewall

Book:The Stonewall Reader

Source: The Stonewall Reader

“Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name." (Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.)”

Writing Novels Literary Criticism Bad Reviews The Davinci Code

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Masquerading in the attire of the opposite sex was a criminal offense, except on Halloween.”

Stonewall

Book:Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights

Source: Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights

“Change does come.”

Stonewall

Book:Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights

Source: Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights

“For some people the march was and will be one of the highest points in their lives. The courage that it took for some people to make those first steps from Sheridan Square into Sixth Avenue and out of the Village was the summoning up of a whole lifetime’s desire to finally come clear, to say the truth as it is, to expose themselves nakeder than any pinup boy in any flesh book, to show their heads as well as their bodies and to put their heads and souls where their bodies have been for so many years.”

Stonewall

Book:The Stonewall Reader

Source: The Stonewall Reader

“One of the things I think about is if you were to take a history book and pull the bullshit out of it, find the truth, snatch out all the bullshit that’s in there, then you’re going to wind up with two or three pages.”

History Stonewall

Book:The Stonewall Reader

Source: The Stonewall Reader

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