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ALICE WALKER // NOVELIST, ESSAYIST, AND ACTIVIST from Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, 1984 9. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves-along with the renewed courage to try them out." But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. "Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideas. AUDRE LORDE // POET, ESSAYIST, AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST from a blog post in response to the suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer, a bisexual teen and YouTuber, 2011 8. Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender citizen of this country.”
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"In light of Jamey's death, it became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality. from Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come, 1992
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We are the class that does the work of the world, and can revolutionize it. Genuine bonds of solidarity can be forged between people who respect each other's differences and are willing to fight their enemy together. We are pitted against each other in order to keep us from seeing each other as allies. "Like racism and all forms of prejudice, bigotry against transgender people is a deadly carcinogen. LESLIE FEINBERG // TRANSGENDER ACTIVIST AND AUTHOR from an interview with Michelangelo Signorile about coming out as bisexual in his memoir Fire Shut Up In My Bones, 2014 4. And maybe that’s the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference." And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. What are you talking about?' All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term bisexual is not only serviceable but it is sufficient. And I had to say, 'Charles, snap out of that. I was so special-I was so different from everybody else I was meeting. I wanted something that was so singular, a label that was so singular for me. "Part of what my discomfort was, in the beginning, is that I wanted something that didn't exist.