Status Updates From The Deviant's War: The Homo...

It is good. Rich in history, however, the way Kameny doesn’t even try to be discreet stresses me out. There is a reason you lost your job 😭

"Two, four, six, eight, gay is just as good as straight."
"Three, five, seven, nine, lesbians are mighty fine."

"The lesbian," she explained, "is discriminated against not only because she is a lesbian, but because she is a woman."

"He who is THE expert on the homophile movement??"

"But where were all the lesbians?"

"though Kameny did not have a term for it yet, by exposing the arbitrary logic of the purges with his own, contrary logic, he formulated gay pride as a political tool of resistance, a weapon to be wielded, for now, only in the courts." Loveee this quote