Posts from — June 2008
Images from the first New England Transgender Pride
Photography by TransAdvocacy and LMF photographer extraordinaire Glenn Koetzner
June 12, 2008 No Comments
Historical footage of Sylvia Rivera and the Lesbian and Gay Backlash
[cross posted by author from queerswithoutborders.com/wpmu]
The following clip is excerpted from a wonderful KQED series titled The Question of Equality. This clip is from part one of this series: “Out Rage 69″ that talks about Stonewall, the Gay Liberation Front, the GAA, and the movement from a multi-issue queer movement to a single issue gay movement that excludes drag queens, people of color, street people and anyone not fitting the white gay mentality of the GAA. This clip presents a view into the backlash by gays and lesbians against drag queens and street transvestites and has some excellent interviews with Sylvia Rivera as well as her storming the stage at NYC Pride 1973, following Jean O’Leary’s vicious attack on Transvestites and Drag Queens. ENJOY!
June 11, 2008 No Comments
Trans Revisionist Editorial by Metroline Editor Joseph DaBrow
First HRC attempts to marginalize the Transgender Community and now Metroline is quick on their heels of Trans Oppression! The current issue of Metroline has an Editorial by the Editor Joseph DaBrow that revises Stonewall History (4th paragraph) by stating that at Stonewall “there were no drag queens there at all. It was gay human beings simply standing up for being who they were.” Has Mr. DaBrow and the publisher of Metroline John Crowley never heard of Sylvia Rivera or Marsha P. Johnson both well know and prominent Stonewall Veterans? Perhaps if Mr. DaBrow and Crowley attended our New England Trans Pride, they would have heard Miss Majors, a Stonewall Veteran, as well as many other speakers remember the critical participation of our Transgender (i.e. Drag Queens or Transvestites in 1969 vernacular) comrades at Stonewall. Or to learn that the theme of this first ever New England Trans Pride was: “Remember Stonewall? That was us!” Or perhaps they never listened to Pacifica Radio’s excellent audio documentary: “Remembering Stonewall.“
TransAdvocacy POLL: How should we respond to the Metroline Trans Revisionist Editorial?
June 9, 2008 No Comments
Great androgynous animation vid
Enjoy. Source Narcys myspace or Narcys.com
June 8, 2008 No Comments
