Celebrity

History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.

I think if transvestites don't stand up for themselves, nobody else is going to stand up for transvestites.

There are a lot of gay transvestites who have been in jail for no reason at all.

I may be crazy, but that don't make me wrong.

I never come out of drag to go anywhere. Everywhere I go I get all dressed up.

Darling, I want my gay rights now.

As long as gay people don't have their rights all across America, there's no reason for celebration.

I'd been going to jail for like, 10 years before the Stonewall.

Now they got two little nice statues in Chariot Park to remember the gay movement. How many people have died for these two little statues to be put in the park for them to recognize gay people?

STAR is a very revolutionary group. We believe in picking up the gun, starting a revolution if necessary. Our main goal is to see gay people liberated and free and have equal rights that other people have in America.

As long as gay people don't have their rights all across America, there's no reason for celebration.

I'm still stuck in the Stonewall in 1968. I never left the Stonewall.

In 1969, I started wearing female attire full-time.

I may be crazy, but that don't make me wrong.

A drag queen is one that usually goes to a ball and that's the only time she gets dressed up. Transvestites live in drag. A transsexual spends most of her life in drag.

I never come out of drag to go anywhere. Everywhere I go I get all dressed up.

We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.

Gay sisters don't think too bad of transvestites. Gay brothers do.

I don't think you should be ashamed of anybody that you know that has AIDS. You should stand as close to them as you can and help them out as much as you can. I'm a strong believer in that and that's why I try to do that for everyone I know that has the virus.

How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We're all in this rat race together!