“My name is Pauli Murray. My whole history has been a struggle in a society dominated by the ideas that blacks were inferior to whites,
“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.”
“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?”
La Fragosa taught Mathilde “Missy” de Morny to defy sexist ‘norms’—In rewriting Missy as a “man,” mainstream strips her of her power and denies lesbians their history.
“If we can be revised after we’re dead, by the very thing we fight against while we’re alive, then what are we fighting for?”
“Jennie Hodgers, aka Albert Cashier, is a symbol of defiance and bravery—She dreamed bigger than the world would allow. Rewriting Jennie Hodgers as a “man,” does a great disservice to her legacy, and erases the sexism that led her to make the choices she did.”
“Marsha Johnson, aka Malcolm, was a self-proclaimed gay man, drag queen, transvestite, until his death in 1992… So how did Johnson’s story come to be so drastically revised?”
“Back then, women who refused to fall in line with a male-dominated way of thinking, were shut down immediately.”
“They were the epitome of female beauty wrapped in Brooks Brothers suits.”
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