“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.”
Quote by New York Public Library
Book:The Stonewall Reader
Work
The Stonewall Reader
Browse quotes and source details for this work. more
Author
You May Also Like
“You’re not a woman!” I say, “I don’t know what I am if I’m not a woman.”
Source: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
Source: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
“Men danced with men, often for the first time in their lives.”
Source: Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
Source: Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
“We are following the blacks ... And we will follow, entering, perhaps, the same time as women.”
Source: Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
Source: Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World
Source: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
“You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.”
Source: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Source: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference