After all, it was drag queens, Black drag queens, who fought the police at the famous Stonewall Inn rebellion in 1969. Years later, a group of nouveau-respectable gays tried to construct a memorial to Stonewall in the park across from the old bar. The piece consisted to two white clone-like thin gay men and two white, young lesbians with perfect noses. They were made of a plaster-like sustance, pasty and white as the people who paid for it. Some of us were furious. Chris called together all of the black gay and lesbian groups in the city and Feminist News for involved in the fight for a full color statue of a black drag queen throwing a brick at a cop. We didn’t get it, and frankly, I’d rather have nothing. At least that way you know what you’ve got.– Sarah Schulman, The Sophie Horowitz Story (via Hugh Ryan)
She wrote this in 1984.
These people don’t even surprise me anymore
