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who are men and those of us who are women may cross paths
frequently or not so frequently during this voyage, but by and large
the voyage will be different for us on the basis of gender.
Coming out in the lavender culture is as simple as a night at a gay
bar or a romp in the sack, as complex as dealing with our families,
or making a friendship or love endure. But let us also acknowledge
the writings and the paintings, the music and the dance, the plants
and the animals, the men and the women we have touched and those
who have touched us.
We, who are supposed to be rootless and without progeny, cringe
at the knowledge of Jr. High school kids still being called "queer",
and we pay tribute to our forefathers and foremothers-to Sappho,
Walt Whitman, Michelangelo, Rosa Bonheur, Natalie Barney, Oscar
Wilde, Magnus Hirschfeld, Edward Carpenter, and Gertrude Stein.
No less forefathers and foremothers are the living ones: Jeanette
Foster and Harry Hay, Craig Rodwell and Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin
and Frank Kameny, Jim Kepner and Barbara Greer, those who
produced and supported One and the Ladder.
Let us discover and rediscover (especially those of us who are gay
men) the work of Christopher Isherwood, John Horne Bums, Merrill
Miller, Alan Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, and James Baldwin.
Let us also remember the martyred Billy Size, the invincible
Molly; let us ponder the lives of Malone, and yes, Sutherland, the
queen whose campy, caustic wit is a reminder of the camp culture
that both perplexes us and pleases us even today; a subculture that
has served to keep us alive and in community. Even as it seethes with
oppression and self-oppression. Let us remember the gays who
marched in this city before, to say no to racism and war-men and
women such as Igal Rodenko and Barbara Deming, Robert Spike and
Bayard Rustin. Also, let us remember those who marched in Phila-
delphia for the Annual Reminder, in San Francisco at the State
Steamship Lines, and in New York when Diego Vinales was impailed
on a fence.
Let us give equal greeting to the men among us who are house
carpenters and those who arrange flowers, to the women who drive
forklifts and those who walk the streets-to the ribbon clerks and the
factory workers, the doctors and the teachers, the masseurs and
masseuses, the blind, the deaf, the retarded, the lame and the schizo-
phrenic.
Our new lavender culture is enriched by the men who write for
Fag Rag and RFD, and by the women who put together the Michigan
Women's Music Festival and the Lesbian Tide.
Let us reflect with glee on all places where straight people have
had to deal with us-in the Democratic Party, the Republican Party,
and the Social Worker's Party; at pot parties and dinner parties, at
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D.C. Media Committee. National March! On Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights: Official Souvenir Program, pamphlet, 1979; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc276226/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.