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[–]TransspeciesUnicornI sexually identify as a mythical sparkly equine 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This shit is really starting to get on my nerves so much. How many times do we have to go over this? Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were self-identified drag queens, not transwomen. Marsha didn't arrive until after the riots already started and Sylvia was konked out on heroin at the time.

Also, for as much as TRAs love to scream about "women of color", they sure just love to completely ignore Storme DeLarverie.

Also Stonewall isn't the be all end all of all gay rights everywhere, this shit needs to stop. I'm American and even I'm getting fed up with the US-centrism. The Stonewall Riots occurred in 1969. France decriminalized homosexuality in 1791. And it wasn't the only country to do so long before Stonewall either: Belgium (1795), The Netherlands (1811), Iceland (1940) just to name a small handful. People need to quit acting like Stonewall was the start of all gay rights everywhere, it wasn't the start even here in the US. The state of Illinois had already decriminalized same sex activity in 1961.

[–]MBMayfair 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

for as much as TRAs love to scream about "women of color", they sure just love to completely ignore Storme DeLarverie

FUCKING THANK YOU

Stonewall isn't the be all end all of all gay rights everywhere, this shit needs to stop

FUCKING YES. Also American, also think we need to shut up about Stonewall. Sooo much happened before that and outside of the U.S.