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Within two years of the Stonewall riots there were gay rights groups in every major American city, as well as Canada, Australia, and Western Europe.[124] People who joined activist organizations after the riots had very little in common other than their same-sex attraction. Many who arrived at GLF or GAA meetings were taken aback by the number of gay people in one place.[125] Race, class, ideology, and gender became frequent obstacles in the years after the riots. This was illustrated during the 1973 Stonewall rally when, moments after Barbara Gittings exuberantly praised the diversity of the crowd, feminist activist Jean O'Leary protested what she perceived as the mocking of women by transvestites and drag queens in attendance. During a speech by O'Leary, in which she claimed that drag queens made fun of women for entertainment value and profit.

lbr they kind of do

ikr

during those times "drag queen" was almost synonymous with "trans woman"

wut no

during those times and these, "drag queen" meant a lot of different things. some, then and now, were mocking women for entertainment.

oh okay. that makes more sense

then yeah that's shitty but idg why you're acting like only feminists are transphobic

bc 70s rad fems are gross?

idgaf about drag queens

i respect what lesbian feminists did in their time for the libreration

but they were still horrible people, mostly

why are you pretending gay men are so much better and that they did everything on their own

what do you accomplish exactly by doing that

oh fuck the early gay liberation men

and men in general

i just don't think either should be glorified necessarily bc of their transphobia

who the fuck was glorifying them besides acknowledging that gay men wouldn't be shit if it weren't for lesbians

especially during the AIDS crisis...

tumblr is THAT way ----|>

oh fuck off cis person

i can h8 the entirety of the early gay liberation front

actually i'm also a trans woman but i don't need everything to be all about me at all times

gay men can be as transphobic as they want and never get called on it. pretending that that ugly side of the gay rights movement was only cissist lesbians is just stupid

they were both awful lbr

and that means that gay men = gay liberation?

um

that u n_p

mte tbh

but that's exactly what drag queens do

can you stop pretending like they weren't directing this at "transsexual women" as well?

ppl who never learned lgbt history which surprise is most people don't know that drag queen was code for trans woman

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