partycitywigsale: fiercetransgirls:Sylvia Rivera calling out gays and lesbians for their trans exclu
partycitywigsale: fiercetransgirls:Sylvia Rivera calling out gays and lesbians for their trans exclusion in 1973 at the Christopher Street Liberation Day rally (x) Rivera lied repeatedly about being at Stonewall and was even called out for it by Malcolm Michaels Jr., a gay activist best known by his drag persona, Marsha P. Johnson, who also didn’t arrive until after the riots had started. (And went by both pronouns, FYI.) Stormé DeLarverie, a butch lesbian, is the one who actually sparked the riots. The reason Rivera was being booed at the event pictured here was because she stormed the stage during lesbian activist Jean O’Leary’s speech, took the microphone from her, and called her a bitch. O’Leary was critical of misogyny within the gay community, specifically drag culture and men who do insulting impersonations of women for money. I’m not denying that Rivera did important work, because the STAR House was important, but there’s a reason lesbians want to #GetTheLOut. We’re done hearing twisted narratives that erase and demonize lesbian pioneers who prioritized female liberation. -- source link