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“(Once when Hannah accused her of hating colored people, Eva said she only hated one, Hannah’s father BoyBoy, and it was hating him that kept her alive and happy.)” ngl I feel her

“Finally, in 1936, a court found that ‘a male person cannot be convicted’ of being a vagrant prostitute, thereby completing the illogical syllogism: in the eyes of New York City, all prostitutes were women, and all lewd women were prostitutes.”

“And the House of D, more than perhaps any other prison, had an outsized role in queer life. It sat at the end of Christopher St, the block whose very name is a global byword for queerness. You could see the Stonewall Inn from the prison’s high, small windows, and during the Stonewall Uprising, those on the inside held a riot all their own, setting fire to their belongings and tossing them out the windows…”