“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.”
Source: The Stonewall Reader
“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
“I’m not even in the back of the bus. My community is being pulled by a rope around our neck by the bumper of the damn bus that stays in the front. Gay liberation but transgender nothing!”
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
“When Clinton took office, members of that community still faced a host of legal and cultural barriers. Sodomy laws banned same-sex acts, even in the privacy of one’s bedroom, in more than half of the country’s states plus the nation’s capital.”
Source: Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
“For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”
“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
“Paradoxically, America appears to many gays not as an imperialist nation, but since Stonewall as a symbol of their liberation.”
Source: Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World
“They have been brainwashed by this fucked up system that has condemened us and by doctors that call us a disease and a bunch
of freaks. Our family and friends have also condemned us because of their lack
of true knowledge.”
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