Reposted by Lucia, Sleazy Sapphic 🩷🍖⛓️💥
I have to groan every time some furry posts a "why can't all trans people just get along, why so much infighting" fakedeep bullshit.
Transmisogyny. We can't all get along because of transmisogyny. Fix it, instead of demanding trans people to just sweep their own abuse under the rug.
![Discussing the split years later with the historian Jonathan Katz, Harry Hay described it as a conflict in vision. “The original society was based upon this feeling of idealism, a great transcendent dream of what being Gay was all about. I had proposed from the very beginning that it would be Mattachine’s job to find out who we Gays were (and had been over the millennia) and what we were for, and on such basis, to find ways to make our contributions to our parent hetero society.” The moderates who took over the society in 1953 saw accommodation to straight norms as critical to the movement’s success. They argued that homosexuals should “adjust to a pattern of behavior that is acceptable to society in general and compatible with the recognized institutions of home, church, and state.” At the April 1953 convention, Marilyn Rieger, a member from Los Angeles, argued, “We know we are the same…no different than anyone else. Our only difference is an unimportant one to the heterosexual society, unless we make it important” [emphasis in original]. Rieger reasoned that stressing a homosexual culture distinct from the dominant one would only exacerbate the hostility of society, and she pleaded with the delegates to reject such a position. Equality for gay men and women would come, she said, “by integrating…not as homosexuals, but as people, as men and women whose homosexuality is irrelevant to our ideals, our principles, our hopes and aspirations.” To activists like Rieger, the founders’ insistence on defining gay and lesbian identity and claiming a distinct minority status created a chasm between gay and straight people. As John D’Emilio observes, “The emphasis that proponents of the gay minority status placed on being different aroused the antagonism of individuals who yearned above all for simple acceptance of who they were.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6aybno3ecyn6tt5mzjqncsmg/bafkreie4fiuhfs3lilhgxdiidsq5brgwlw3mannukkzewfhukff3mdwvny)
