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a bunch of stoned-out faggots Dudley Clendenin and Adam Nagourney, Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in Amenca (New York: Touchstone, 1999), 49.

The more daring activists who had sprung forward Ibid., 54.

She would throw herself into every meeting Duberman, Stonewall, 238.

Backthen, we were beat up bythe police In Feinberg, Trans Liberation, 106. 156 Their first home was the back of a trailer truck Duberman, Stonewall, 251—52.

Marsha and I had always sneaked people into our hotel rooms In Feinberg, Trans Liberation, 108.

There was always food in the house Ibid.

It is possible for all homosexuals Clendenin and Nagourney, Out for Good,

Huey decided that we were part of the revolution In Feinberg, Trans Liberation, 108.

When attacked by a GAA man Duberman, Stonewall, 238.

was being seized by drag queens as their holiday Clendenin and Nagourney, Out for Good, 169.

O’Learywas challengedby Lee Brewster Ibid., 172.

We liberated them. They owe us Rally and march for Amanda Milan attended by the author, New York City, June 2001. I met and spoke briefly with Sylvia Rivera at the rally, intending to interview her formally at a later date. She passed away before I was able to do so. David W. Dunlap, “Sylvia Rivera, 50, Figure in Birth of the Gay Liberation Movement,” New York Times, February 20, 2002.

the guilt-ridden commentary Dale Carpenter, “The Myth of a Transgender Stonewall,” “Outright” (column), The Texas Tnangle, downloaded from http://www.txtriange.com/archive/1022/viewpoints.htm.

Since May, I’ve been the food director Sylvia Rivera in update to radio program “Remembering Stonewall,” downloaded from http://wwwsound portraits.0rg/on-air/remembering_stonewall/update.php3.

I am proud of myself for being there that night In Feinberg, Trans Liberation, 109.

there was this very strong association formed between gender nonconformity and homosexuality Interview with Simon LeVay, Los Angeles, Calif, September 2001. “The idea of the congenital invert sums it up better than anything, the idea that people like gays and lesbians were pretty much like we now call transsexuals. My guess is that part of the reason for that misconception was that only a very small fraction of gays and lesbians came to public attention, and they were probably the more gender-nonconformist. You come across in the literature about the Mollies and so forth, in the eighteenth century—these very gender-noncomformist gay men who formed their little societies and had their pubs where they met and it’s clear that they dressed as women. And there were probably other homosexual men and women who never came to public attention, and so there was this very strong association formed between gender nonconformity and homosexuality. And then I think that there was a kind of overcorrection in that since the Second World War in the gay and lesbian community there’s been an almost excessive denial between homosexuality and gender nonconformity. However, I think there is a connection and I think that the evidence is particularly good for childhood.”

Gender issues stood at the forefront of the radical challenge Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2002), 232.

the Cockettes, a group of singing, dancing, gender-fuck hippies Susan Stryker was the first person to mention the Cockettes to me. Two years later, the feature-length documentary The Cockettes, by David Weissman and Bill Weber, was released. The film was a nominee for Best Documentary at the Independent Spirit Awards and winner of Best Documentary, Los Angeles Film Critics.

They were people who brought together clashing styles Author interview with Stryker, September 2001.

Many of us believed that the best way to eliminate the male/female divide Jay, Tales, 82.

a novel that reflects hir experience Feinberg prefers the use of non-gender-specific pronouns (hir, sie) and usage in these paragraphs reflects hir preference.

One day I came home from work Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, 1993), 135-36.

As much as I loved my beard as part of my body Ibid., 222.

strangers had raged at me for being a woman who crossed a forbidden boundary Ibid., 244.

the real Feinberg was denied medical treatment Feinberg, Trans Liberation, 2.

In May i£58, the Sunday Express of London Liz Hodgkinson, Michael, Nee Laura: The Story of the World’s First Female to Male Transsexual (London: Columbus Books, 1989), 137.

Proud of being a woman Mario Martino. Emergence: A Transsexual Autobiography (New York: Crown Publishers, 1977), 246.

For me, some of the hardest people to come out to Author interview with Ali Cannon, San Francisco, Calif., September 4, 2001.

It was really hard Author interview with Tom Kennard, San Francisco, Calif., September 5, 2001.

bitchy, catty, dykey, frustrated, cray Morgan quoted in Jay, Tales, 113. 167 I will not be your “nigger” any longer Del Martin quoted in Clendenin and

Nagourney, Out for Good, 96.

called on feminists to cut their ties with men Clendenin and Nagourney, Out for Good, 90.

for lesbians, the best thing that emerged from the Lavender Menace Jay, Tales, 145.

Man-hating … is an honorable and viable political act Morgan quoted in Clendenin and Nagourney, Out for Good, 166.

All transsexuals rape women’s bodies Janice Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979), 104. For a response to Raymond, see Sandy Stone, “The Empire Strikes Back: A Post-Transsexual Manifesto,” in Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), 336-59.

Raymond andMcHugh echo each other in characterising transsexualism as “an

ideology” Raymond, Transsexual Empire, 5. 169 and comparing sex-reassignment surgery to a lobotomy Ibid., 131. 169 it is biologically impossible to change chromosomal sex Ibid., 126. 169 Masculinity and femininity … are social constructs Ibid., 3.

The transsexual has not been adequately conditioned Ibid., 132.

We know that we are women who are born with female chromosomes Ibid., 114.

Transsexualism is thus the ultimate … conclusion of male possession Ibid., 30.

Female-to-male transsexual people … have been assimilated into the transsexual world Ibid., 27.

The Transsexual Empire is ultimately a medical empire Ibid., 119. 171 One hypothesis that is being tested Ibid., 140.

I have a newspaper article in my files Author interview with Stryker, September 2001.

John Ronald Brown, “presented himself as the champion of transsexuals”

Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed, 271.

He was exceedingly handsome Jan Morris, Conundrum (New York: Har- court, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974), 155.

What Erickson did on a small scale Author telephone interview with Aaron Devor, June 10, 2002.

When the first HBIGDA conference was going to be held Author interview with Jude Patton, June 21, 2003, Philadelphia, Pa.