adayinthelesbianlife:“I knew who I was and I wasn’t ashamed of...

adayinthelesbianlife:

“I knew who I was and I wasn’t ashamed of what I was. Right from the beginning, I always felt proud and special. I used to have this fantasy that there was a ray of light shining on me wherever I went. That’s the way I really felt: special.”

- From an oral history tape made with Sandy Kern, a Jewish, working class, butch lesbian, at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, New York, 1984

This is great, though I can’t help head-tilting at that last caption. Am I missing a refere...