Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.
It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.
no white gay boy will ever reblog this, watch:
no white gay will reblog this
no white lgb person will reblog this
Without Stonewall, without the efforts of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, the LGBTQ Community wouldn’t be where it is today. Don’t forget the roots, don’t forget the catalyst.
and then TERFs wanna be like, “hmm well the LGBT community existed before Stonewall!”
but like…Becky, of course LGBTQ+ people existed before Stonewall. We’ve all existed since the beginning of time. But the movement got a shock to its senses, a jump-start, a rocket-into-space when that glass shattered via Marsha P. Johnson, and when Sylvia Rivera was up on-stage protesting guess who was on the sidelines heckling her?
The same fuckers who won’t ever reblog or acknowledge this
Yes! This is all true and very important!
It’s almost like it is possible to recognize that white queer people existed before, and that black gay men had an important role in laying the foundation during the modern civil rights movement, and still recognize that stonewall and Johnson and Rivera specifically were the contemporary catalyst for LGBT and queer rights.
Like, these things aren’t mutually exclusive. And there will be more people down the line, too, in other realms of marginalization, and they won’t be mutually exclusive with anyone else, either.
