Originally Posted By u/Loaded_Up_ At 2025-05-15 12:04:05 PM | Source


  • yumpsuit@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I can’t speak to the contemporary phenomenon, and generally oughtn’t being cishet, but this was a trend historically in the US. In seeking acceptance by the mainstream, some homosexual communities tried to play into postwar American mores around class, respectability, and gender roles, and transmisogyny was a wedge.

    A speech calling this shit out was a key moment in modern American trans history. You should watch it!

    From A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson:

    …[Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR)]’s radical political vision proved immensely unpopular with a newly masculine gay movement and the growing anti-trans tenor of some lesbian feminists. The unresolved tensions of Weinstein Hall came to a dramatic head in 1973 at Christopher Street Liberation Day, the annual commemoration of Stonewall today called Pride. Rivera had been scheduled to speak on the stage set up in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, where the march ended. But when she arrived, she found a contingent of gay people who were staunchly against street queens and tried to stop her from speaking. Rivera had to physically fight her way up to the stage, after which she delivered a legendary speech commemorated by its first line, “Y’all better quiet down.”