Who's Next?

Aug 03, 2006 21:21

When we fought World War II, we started freeing religion.
When blacks fought for their rights, we started freeing race.
When women fought for their rights, we started freeing sex.
Now that homosexuals are fighting for their rights, we're starting to free orientation.
What's left to start freeing but gender?

Who was behind the civil rights movement, right next to Martin Luther King, invisible and now forgotten? Bayard Rustin, a homosexual.
Who started the Stonewall riots, launching the gay rights movement, invisible and now forgotten? Sylvia Rivera, a crossdresser.
Guess what?

It's our turn next.

politics, quotable

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