TransGriot Blog (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2007/10/why-transgender-community-hates-hrc.html)
The roots of the animosity start after Stonewall. In an effort to appear more 'mainstream' to the straight community, Jim Fouratt and friends bounced Sylvia Rivera and other transpeople out of New York's GLF (Gay Liberation Front). Jim Fouratt's anti-transgender comments culminating in a 2000 one at a Stonewall observance in which he called transpeople 'misguided gay men who'd undergone surgical mutilations' also added insult to the injury.
Posted on: October 10, 2007, 07:53:49
See also this post:
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,20456.0.html
This is a very interesting and enlightening bit of transgender history. Recomended reading.
"never forgive and never forget"
Quote from: LostInTime on October 11, 2007, 08:50:08 AM
"never forgive and never forget"
Um...
Sound the battle drums?
"So here it comes - the sound of drums.
Here comes the drums, here comes the drums"
Quote from: Kate Alice on October 11, 2007, 01:49:07 AM
Recomended reading.
Required reading.
Posted on: October 11, 2007, 12:29:50 PM
Quote from: LostInTime on October 11, 2007, 11:10:05 AM
"So here it comes - the sound of drums.
Here comes the drums, here comes the drums"
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2002/09/00_krieger_drums.htm