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by Chiara Canaan
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Harper’s Magazine Claims They Can Change Stormé DeLarverie to a “He”
Bentley Was Pushed to Admit Lesbians aren’t Women… A Stance Now Eerily Echoed.
Stonewall Vet Fred Sargeant on Ellen Broidy: “This is one of those important unknown stories.”
“We find these remains buried, dust them off, and put them out everywhere we can, with such limited resources, hoping to be heard. . . We know if we don’t preserve their legacies, our history, no one else will.”
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Cartoon: Lesbian Coping Mechanisms. “Claire shrugged and kept knitting.”
“Claire shrugged and kept knitting.”
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Stonewall Vet Fred Sargeant on Ellen Broidy: “This is one of those important unknown stories.”
“We find these remains buried, dust them off, and put them out everywhere we can, with such limited resources, hoping to be heard. . . We know if we don’t preserve their legacies, our history, no one else will.”
Lin Farley marched the first March and gave ‘sexual harassment’ a name
Lesbian leader, Lin Farley, reminds us to “stand up and take our own rights into our own hands.”
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.”