rad-aspie: lesbian-lizards: auntiewanda: ithelpstodream: never forget Actually in the United States
rad-aspie: lesbian-lizards: auntiewanda: ithelpstodream: never forget Actually in the United States it was a lesbian who challenged the United States government when she was going to be hit with over $300,000 in estate taxes after she was widowed, something that wouldn’t have happened if her marriage was federally recognized. Which gave the supreme court no choice but to rule the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that was established in 1993 banning federal recognition of same sex marriage to be unconstitutional. Her name is Edith Windsor. But sure, you can just have your tumblr revisionist history of Stonewall where Martha P. Johnson wasn’t a gay male tranvestite/drag queen, somehow was the only person who mattered out of the hundreds of people involved in the uprising, and imply that gay people did nothing to fight for their own rights in the following 46 years. And pretend the AIDS crisis never happened and how that brought to light the gross inequality of gays in the US. And pretend that Matthew Shepard’s murder never happened and didn’t launch the gay rights movement into the modern incarnation that eventually lead to marriage equality. Because US liberals have finally found a way to hate gays now while convincing themselves they’re still progressive, and that’s all that matters. I see this post way too often without any additional commentary. who gave me the right to marry supreme court trans women of color throwing bricks at cops Jewish Lesbians (Edie Windsor, Thea Spyer (Edie’s spouse), and Roberta Kaplan (Windsor’s lawyer for the doma case) were all jewish lesbians) -- source link
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