“I was there [the night the Stonewall Inn was raided], just by chance, and I remember thinking it would be the first funny revolution. We were calling ourselves the Pink Panthers and doubling back behind the cops and coming out behind them kicking in a chorus line. We were shouting ‘Gay Is Good’ in imitation of the slogan ‘Black Is Beautiful.’ GLBT leaders like to criticize young gays for not taking the movement seriously, but don’t listen to them. Just remember that at Stonewall we were defending our right to have fun, to meet each other, and to have sex. Up ’til that moment, we had all thought that homosexuality was a medical term. Suddenly we saw that we could be a minority group – with rights, a culture, and an agenda. June 27, 1969, was a big date in gay history.”

“GLBT (or more recently – ladies first) LGBT is a relatively young orthodoxy. It originates from a 1995 meeting of gay organization leaders in Washington who decided that we were no longer the gay/lesbian movement but the ‘gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender’ movement. Well, I don’t feel bound by what ‘gay leaders’ try to dictate. It was amusing at the time to hear people initially spit out the whole litany (instead of just saying ‘gay’) before the acronym was contrived. But these aren’t all one movement and what we have in common is limited.”

“[M]ore pro-LGBT-rights laws were passed this year than any year in our movement’s history. As a result, for the first time more than half the U.S. population will live in jurisdictions that outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and nearly 40 percent will live in jurisdictions that protect transgender people from discrimination.”