The Stonewall Reader
An elderly lady who agreed to hang a sign told him, “It’s about time those boys stood up for themselves.”
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Gay men stared their mortality in the face, concluded they had little to lose, that silence equaled death, and they made a giant collective leap out of the closet.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Disability, like homosexuality, carries a stigma (a word that comes from the Greek for a mark made by a pointed instrument—a prick, a brand, a puncture—of the sort Oedipus applied to his own eyes). When I think of how that stigma can be overcome, the most powerful example I’ve found is in gay pride and the LGBTQ rights movement. I’m not yet comfort
... See moreAndrew Leland • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
About a quarter of the psychiatrists got up and left, but the rest stayed to hear GAA’s gripes, and some even agreed that the first choice of treatment ought not be therapy to change the homosexual but rather therapy to help him get rid of the anxieties caused by a hostile society.