Tuesday, June 2, 2009
The Play: "I Survived Stonewall" ... an Interview with a Stonewall Veteran, Big Roy McCarthy
Posted by Vanessa Edwards Foster at 10:10 AM

http://transpolitical.blogspot.com/2009/06/play-i-survived-stonewall-interview.html

Big Roy McCarthy worked at KPFT (a Pacifica station in Houston) at the time I was doing my own radio show there for After Hours: Queer Radio With Attitude. Big Roy did our Queer News portion of our show.

Knowing Roy's history, I decided to commandeer him one night before our show and sit for a couple hours with a tape recorder to get him in his own words on what it was like being there at ground zero and involved physically in the Stonewall Riots. He wasn't one of the "Stonewall Girls", the instigators of the riot. However he had a shadier side to his personal life then as a young gay hustler, and could very much relate to the environ at that time and an eyewitness account that few others could report.

I am currently the chairperson of the LGBT Employee Relations committee for my company.

Next week I'll be participating in a panel discussion about coming out as trans.

Many of our younger LGB folks here only know of the riots as lore and history.  This makes it vivid.  This makes it real.

I personally have a policy of not posting to my company things that regard my trans background.  However, in this case I've sent it to our executive council and I'll seek to cross post it to our internal website.

This isn't about being trans.  This is about not forgetting.  WE MUST NEVER FORGET!

-Sandy(I am humbled)

and when I talk about gay community, the transgenders were a part of it. We never ever considered them not! Bisexuals, crossdressers, were never ever not considered part of it! We were all gay! I'm kind of sad that all this division and fracturization has come about.

Sad to say, that division even occurs in here with '->-bleeped-<-r than thou' notions, people referencing crossdressers as 'guys in a dress' and the rest.

The Play: "I Survived Stonewall" ... an Interview with a Stonewall Veteran, Big Roy McCarthy

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/7/739758/-The-Play:-I-Survived-Stonewall-...-an-Interview-with-a-Stonewall-Veteran,-Big-Roy-McCarthy
6/7/09

The following is a reprint of an article familiar to folks in the Houston area. It was initially done for the June 1999 issue of the TATS (Texas Assn. for Transsexual Support) newsletter which I edited for a number of years. It was ten years ago – the 30th Anniversary of Stonewall.

Big Roy McCarthy worked at KPFT (a Pacifica station in Houston) at the time I was doing my own radio show there for After Hours: Queer Radio With Attitude. Big Roy did our Queer News portion of our show.

Knowing Roy's history, I decided to commandeer him one night before our show and sit for a couple hours with a tape recorder to get him in his own words on what it was like being there at ground zero and involved physically in the Stonewall Riots.