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Qsaltlake.com | ISSUE 312 | JUNE, 2020
quotes “There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are.” —Tammy Baldwin’s “Never Doubt” speech at the Millennium March for Equality, 2000
“We will not go away with our issues of sexuality. We are coming home. It is not enough to tell us that one was a brilliant poet, scientist, educator, or rebel. Whom did he love? It makes a difference. I can’t become a whole man simply on what is fed to me: watered-down versions of Black life in America. I need the ass-splitting truth to be told, so I will have something pure to emulate, a reason to remain loyal.” — Essex Hemphill from Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry, 1992
“Like racism and all forms of prejudice, bigotry against transgender people is a deadly carcinogen. We are pitted against each other in order to keep us from seeing each other as allies. Genuine bonds of solidarity can be forged between people who respect each other’s differences and are willing to fight their enemy together. We are the class that does the work of the world, and can revolutionize it. We can win true liberation.” —Leslie Feinberg in Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come, 1992
