“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,
Martha Shelley doesn’t care how people remember her. What she cares about is doing what’s right, right now. Born in Brooklyn, in 1943, Shelley grew
“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?”
“Reclaiming my word! Reclaiming my word! Reclaiming my word! Lesbian! What they failed to tell you, is that IT’S MY WORD… And I CAN reclaim it!”
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