immoderateprogressive:dyke-prince:ms-gay-frogs:partycitywigsale: fiercetransgirls:Sylvia Rivera call
immoderateprogressive:dyke-prince:ms-gay-frogs: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. op you look like a damn fool “This was illustrated during the 1973 Stonewall rally when, moments after Barbara Gittings exuberantly praised the diversity of the crowd, feminist activist Jean O'Leary protested what she perceived as the mocking of women by cross-dressers and drag queens in attendance. During a speech by O'Leary, in which she claimed that drag queens made fun of women for entertainment value and profit, Sylvia Rivera and Lee Brewster jumped on the stage and shouted ‘You go to bars because of what drag queens did for you, and these bitches tell us to quit being ourselves!’" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots in Unlikely Community under Legacy How typical is it that tumblr acts like this guy is the poor innocent victim being mistreated by women, when the truth is he rightfully got booed for pulling a Kanye to trash on women? -- source link
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