heresthepencil's review
5.0
"Mainstreaming, normality, being normal. I understand how much everybody likes to fit into that mainstream gay and lesbian community. You know, it used to be a wonderful thing to be avant-garde, to be different from the world. I see us reverting into a so-called liberated closet because we, not we, yous of this mainstream community, wish to be married, wish for this status. That’s all fine. But you are forgetting your grass roots, you are forgetting your own individual identity. I mean, you can never be like them. Yes we can adopt children, all well and good, that’s fine. I would love to have children. I would love to marry my lover over there [Julia Murray], but for political reasons I will not do it because I don’t feel that I have to fit into that closet of normal, straight society which the gay mainstream is always going towards."
fairyeloise's review
5.0
honestly, if you are LGBT+ this should be required reading (it's not long at all)
it's amazing what Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson fought for and had to do against great odds
i feel like if you need to read one, at least read Sylvia Rivera's "Queens in Exile, the Forgotten Ones" which is the final interview in the collection
it's amazing what Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson fought for and had to do against great odds
i feel like if you need to read one, at least read Sylvia Rivera's "Queens in Exile, the Forgotten Ones" which is the final interview in the collection
bradley's review
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
modernjaneeyre's review
5.0
Super informative and self-critical, y que a leérselo para que jamás se nos olvide nuestra historia ni hagamos un cuento de ella tampoco :-)
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