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by Chiara Canaan
Stolen History
Miriam Ben-Shalom: The Lesbian SSG Who Fought ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’
Harper’s Magazine Claims They Can Change Stormé DeLarverie to a “He”
“Harper’s Magazine is not only ‘comfortable’ with ‘the decision’ to reinvent Stormé as a ‘he,’ they’re comfortable with any distress it causes the lesbian community that surrounded Stormé while she was alive… The very people she spent her life protecting.”
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Cartoon: Lesbian Coping Mechanisms. “Claire shrugged and kept knitting.”
“Claire shrugged and kept knitting.”
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Harper’s Magazine Claims They Can Change Stormé DeLarverie to a “He”
“Harper’s Magazine is not only ‘comfortable’ with ‘the decision’ to reinvent Stormé as a ‘he,’ they’re comfortable with any distress it causes the lesbian community that surrounded Stormé while she was alive… The very people she spent her life protecting.”
Bentley Was Pushed to Admit Lesbians aren’t Women… A Stance Now Eerily Echoed.
“Gladys Bentley is among an ever-growing list of historical lesbian figures being revised postmortem… If defying sexist ‘norms’ means we can be recategorized after we die, who among us won’t be up for revision?”
#ProtectJamesYounger isn’t About One Child. It’s About Jacob Lemay and So Many Others …
“A child might not like the things you think they should— and that’s not an indication of their sex, or even . . . take a deep breath . . . their sexuality.”
NY Democrats Quietly Dismantle ‘1 Male, 1 Female’ Rule
“Decaudin successfully got the NY State Democratic Party to dismantle the ‘one male, one female’ rule… A rule which the women’s suffrage movement fought to put into place.”
Mourning the loss of Lesbian Feminist Leader Magdalen Berns
“The night Magdalen Berns died, a rare harvest moon hung over Manhattan. It felt as though the sky had somehow coordinated its timing, so it too could pay tribute to a rare force of nature.”