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This interview with GAA President Jim Owles from September 1970 also touches on "drags" and respectability politics and the need to confront bigotry within the community
February 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Looking at minutes from a July 1970 meeting of Gay Activists Alliance, under New Business -- they make a point of reaffirming their support and affection for the "transvestite" community. Trans folks have always been a part of our activism.
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GAA minutes, July 16, 1970
February 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Text of the poem:
WHERE WILL YOU BE? by Pat Parker (1978) Boots are being polished Trumperters clean their horns Chains and locks forged The crusade has begun. Once again flags of Christ are unfurled in the dawn and cries of soul saviors sing apocalyptic on air waves. Citizens, good citizens all parade into voting booths and in self-righteous sanctity X away our right to life. I do not believe as some that the vote is an end, I fear even more It is just a beginning. So I must make assessment Look to you and ask: Where will you be when they come? They will not come a mob rolling through the streets, but quickly and quietly move into our homes and remove the evil, the queerness, the faggotry, the perverseness from their midst. They will not come clothed in brown, and swastikas, or bearing chest heavy with gleaming crosses. The time and need for ruses are over. They will come in business suits to buy your homes and bring bodies to fill your jobs. They will come in robes to rehabilitate and white coats to subjugate and where will you be when they come? Where will we all be when they come? And they will come -- they will come because we are defined as opposite – perverse and we are perverse. Every time we watched a queer hassled in the streets and said nothing – It was an act of perversion. Everytime we lied about the boyfriend or girlfriend at coffee break – It was an act of perversion. Everytime we heard, "I don't mind gays but why must they be blatant?" and said nothing – It was an act of perversion. Everytime we let a lesbian mother lose her child and did not fill the courtroom – It was an act of perversion. Everytime we let straights make out in our bars while we couldn't touch because of laws – It was an act of perversion. Everytime we put on the proper clothes to go to a family wedding and left our lovers at home – It was an act of perversion. Everytime we heard "Who I go to bed with is my personal choice – It's personal not political" and said nothing – It was an act of perversion. Everytime we let straight relatives bury our dead and push our lovers away – It was an act of perversion. And they will come. They will come for the perverts & it won't matter if you're homosexual, not a faggot lesbian, not a dyke gay, not queer It won't matter if you own your business have a good job or are on S.S.I. It won't matter if you're Black Chicano Native American Asian or White It won't matter if you're from New York or Los Angeles Galveston or Sioux Falls It won't matter if you're Butch, or Fem Not into roles Monogamous Non Monogamous It won't matter if you're Catholic Baptist Atheist Jewish or M.C.C. They will come They will come to the cities and to the land to your front rooms and in your closets. They will come for the perverts and where will you be When they come?
February 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM