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“Any woman who is all woman or any man who is all man is a complete monster unfit for human company.”
It’s hard for the South to get things right from the start, because, ever since the Civil War, it has taught itself to equate righteousness with losing. We must be on the right track, y’all, because everyone else is against us.
When Gay’s the Word in London imported the books they were seized in 1984 by Maggie Thatcher’s customs agents as part of “a conspiracy to import indecent material.”
I knew GTW had a lot of trouble with HM Customs back then, but not that Tales of the City was part of the impounded goods!
And I had never heard such silence. This was not a march or even a protest. It was a conscious act of love in response to a conscious act of barbarism. It was the very best of us made visible.
[following the murders of Harvey Milk and George Moscone]
