The Stonewall Reader
Frank Kameny’s observation bears repeating: “We started with nothing, and look what we have wrought!”
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
The times were “full of deaths, but one of the most beautiful moments the gay community ever experienced,”68 Peter Staley later said of those years. “To be that threatened with extinction and not lay down. To stand up and fight back. The way we did it. The way we took care of ourselves and each other. The goodness we shared. The humanity we shared.
... See moreLillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
I truly had not realized that Harlem had so many stores until I saw them all smashed open; the first time the word wealth ever entered my mind in relation to Harlem was when I saw it scattered in the streets. But one’s first, incongruous impression of plenty was countered immediately by an impression of waste. None of this was doing anybody any goo
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
in the classroom about equality and justice, it began to dawn on him that gays needed to fight for rights just as other minorities were doing.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Life magazine—in an alarming article that asked, “Do the Homosexuals, Like the Communists, Intend to Bury Us?”