riicheritto:russianspacegeckosexparty:theothersiiide: fiercetransgirls: Sylvia Rivera calling out ga
riicheritto:russianspacegeckosexparty:theothersiiide: fiercetransgirls: Sylvia Rivera calling out gays and lesbians for their trans exclusion in 1973 at the Christopher Street Liberation Day rally (x) Still relevant And if I’m not mistaken, Sylvia Rivera was *specifically* addressing WHITE gays and white feminists here. She called out these middle/upper class white folks who strove only for assimilation while neglecting Black and brown LGBT people who were poor and struggling and languishing in prison. White Gays and feminists didn’t like the way revolutionary figures like Sylvia were “rocking the boat” Specification is important here because antiblackness and racism are still rampant in the LGBT community and Black + brown LGBT folks have had to make communities of our own because white LGBT people ostracize us. [id: three images in black and white of sylvia rivera yelling at an offscreen crowd, holding a mic. she says, “i have been beaten. i have had my nose broken. i have been thrown in jail. i have lost my job. i have lost my apartment for gay liberation. and you all treat me this way? what the fuck’s wrong with you all?” end id] -- source link