Identité et Humanité

Entry 05 — Christine Jorgensen She Came Home
Entry 05 — Christine Jorgensen She Came Home
She talked about her experience clearly and without excessive apology, using the vocabulary available to her in the 1950s and revising it as better vocabulary became available. She did not... Read more...
Entry 04 — Audre Lorde Your Silence Will Not Protect You
Entry 04 — Audre Lorde Your Silence Will Not Protect You
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1978 and chose not to have reconstructive surgery after her mastectomy. She wrote about that choice in The Cancer Journals — about the... Read more...
Entry 03 — Sylvia Rivera The Blank Space
Entry 03 — Sylvia Rivera The Blank Space
At the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day rally, Rivera was physically blocked from the stage. When she finally got up to speak, she was booed by a crowd that had... Read more...
Entry 02 — Bayard Rustin - The Man Behind the March
Entry 02 — Bayard Rustin - The Man Behind the March
Rustin stayed. He organized. In six weeks, working from a cramped office with a small staff, he coordinated the transportation, the staging, the sound system, the program, the marshals, the... Read more...
Entry 01 — Marsha P. Johnson - Pay It No Mind
Entry 01 — Marsha P. Johnson - Pay It No Mind
That decision — to be joyful anyway, to be present anyway, to be fully and visibly herself in a world that had made very clear it did not want her... Read more...