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FYI to anyone following this account - I am now using StoryGraph to track my books. I'm not deleting my account for now but probably will. If you want to follow me, my id on that site is gannent.

“... gays will appear first [in movies] as background, then-scrubbed up-as tokens and finally as acceptable versions of what the world has always wanted to believe. It will not necessarily be the truth, but it will be an accessible lie, and the cash registers will ring.”

“I’d be damned if I was about to get caught in that predatory-dyke freak trap the world had laid for me. If I had to be lonely, at least I’d have my pride.” Nadine Hubbs in “On the Uses of Shame and Gifts of a Bloodmobile”

"Dear past self, I'm really tired of being brave. Dear future self, I've been really brave, and its tiring. Dear present self; I was hoping by this point that someone else would have told you you were worth being around by now. And I'm proud of you for doing your best to say it every day." - on Things that should have Freed Me. by Kyle Medlin

“...the system will try to tame [gays] by means of a deal: in return for abandoning the radical possibility of ceasing any cooperation with the system, we’ll be given due respect and protection by the police, and the mass media will campaign for us to be respected in our jobs and in daily life, until we have been rendered happy and harmless.” José Joaquín Blanco “Eyes I Dare Not Meet In Dreams”

“I can’t help but think that when I walk down the street I am a one-person guerrilla theater/revolutionary army attacking the entire straight structured world around me. And I also think I win small battles...Why else all the threats of violence, and the actual violence, if they didn’t think that I could actually hurt them.” -“Genderfuck and It’s Delights” by Christopher Lonc

“He said, ‘If you’re trying to get me to say I’m queer, I won’t do it. What I do in bed is nobody’s business.’ I wanted to scream, ‘Honey, I don’t care what you do in bed, I just asked if you are Gay.’” “My Gay Soul” by Gary Alinder

Absolutely loving it so far

I'm on #32 of 100 women who influenced Chinese history and they're already really stretching the definition of "influenced history". Also a large dose of 女性厌恶和大汉注意