![]() ![]() "Being a butch has been the most troublesome and delicious experience of my life. I want to be the best of our desire without apologizing for it, and I want us to know our own history. Now I want to incorporate into my femmeness my new layers of experience. But I am always learning more about this way of loving. "Many of today's feminist see us as ahistorical, as if we are stuck in a time and never change, as if we are a bad fifties thing. I didn’t acknowledge to myself that I was part of a sideshow and that I was on display, but that was exactly what it was." We were only a small part of the population of the bar actually-we were the sideshow. ![]() ![]() There was nothing that could be done about that, because that’s what the bars were, that’s where they made their money-with the tourists coming to look at the queers. ![]() "After I left home my brother found out that I hung out in the Starlet Lounge and he and his friends used to come and taunt us. Here are some quotes that jumped out at me: I would love for there to be an ebook version someday so this text could reach a wider audience. I'm glad I finally found the time to read them. I've been looking for stories like these for a long time. ![]()
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