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[–]Dromedary 24 insightful - 2 fun24 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It's an extraordinary thing that we have ACTUAL VIDEO of Marsha/Malcom SAYING HIMSELF that he's NOT a woman, NOT trans, that he's a GAY MAN who does drag, end of story. And the gender dingbats of today refuse to believe it! They'll believe the fruitiest, most fanciful garbage barges of bullshit, but not this.

Malcolm/Marsha also admitted he wasn't at Stonewall when it started, but he changed his story constantly because as as Fred Sargeant= who was at Stonewall and knew Johnson- Malcolm was "a drug addict, a liar, and a thief". He was a known pest, likely mentally ill, and avoided by most of the gays on the scene then, he had a bad reputation.

SO it's really depressing that it's not just the gender loonies making grandiose false claims about Johnson, these past few days I see a handful of Democratic politicians doing it too, and it makes me want to scream.

[–]JulienMayfair[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The cult of St. Marsha is very strange. It's clear from the documentary about Johnson that he was a very difficult personality, sometimes threatening to the people around him. I think I heard he was banned from some local gay bars in the 70s/80s for being hostile towards other patrons.

That's part of what makes me wonder what the hell was going on in the 6-7 months that he and Sylvia Rivera were trying to help homeless gay youth via the much-mythologized S.T.A.R. I mean, imagine having nowhere else to go but an apartment rented by someone with untreated schizophrenia.