Andrew Sullivan called foul on the New York Times during Pride Month last year, when the Times reported that it was trans women of color who kicked off the 1969 Stonewall riots.
"We are reminded that the Stonewall liberation was led by trans women of color." This is patently untrue. It has always been untrue. Does the NYT have fact-checkers? Or is the "narrative" more important than reality?https://t.co/EZdR1ZUCwl
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) June 17, 2020
It’s a year later, and a group called Shelter is getting in on the action by claiming the Stonewall riots were started by “Black cis and trans women who faced public housing issues throughout their lives.”
The Stonewall uprising was lead by Black cis and trans women who faced housing issues throughout their lives. Pride is a protest and our fight is to defend the right to a safe home for everyone. #PrideMonth pic.twitter.com/SULF0K0pUF
— Shelter (@Shelter) June 4, 2021
Not true. https://t.co/cqI6FW9Txq
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) June 5, 2021
Citation needed
— 🟣⚪️🟢🎀🎀🎀 (@fionayamamoto) June 4, 2021
Who is your historical advisor?
— Angela (@elagnab) June 4, 2021
Stop lying. Just stop.
— Where the f*k is Oscar Goldman🏁 (@spiralmoney) June 4, 2021
Do you not have a fact checker?
— lorna🍒 (@Lorna9100M) June 4, 2021
But how intersectional is that? Black trans women with housing issues. Anyone else want to get in on this narrative?
Please supply evidence of who led the Stonewall riots.
— Friend of a friend (@jo34534386) June 4, 2021
— unparalleledserpent 🟥 (@Perletear) June 4, 2021
No, it wasn't.
— Jaggybunnet (@hughgmeechan) June 4, 2021
This is not true.
— Dave Curtis (@davecurtis314) June 4, 2021
Not true. Shocking. Sort this out.
— Ann Hall (@AnnElise_77) June 4, 2021
It appears you need a history lesson. I’d try reading some of the replies in this thread, they should be helpful in that.
— Vulvarine 💚🤍💜 #IStandWithMarionMillar (@AntigoneFury) June 5, 2021
Why on earth would you peddle an untruth like that? Why?
— Ann Godden (@anngodden) June 4, 2021
Cancelled my monthly direct debit to you after seeing this.
— MabelFrances (@MabelFrances2) June 5, 2021
Marsha Johnson’s recollection:
"I was uptown and I didn't get downtown until about two o'clock. When I got downtown, the place was already on fire, and there was a raid already," she told historian Eric Marcus in 1987. "The riots had already started."
Woke revisionism.
— les paul junior 🍔🍺🎸🚍🐕 (@lespauljunior3) June 4, 2021
Erm yeah. It was mostly lead by gay men and lesbians. But OK.
— Ed (@Ed_UKation) June 4, 2021
Absolute fabrication.
— Ian Govier #FBPE #FBPA 💙 (@certiusuk) June 5, 2021
Funny how they highlighted that Stormé DeLarverie was a "black cis woman" and not "lesbian". I would have thought that was of interest during Pride… 🤔
— Anja 🚴🏻♂️ (@AntiAnja) June 5, 2021
They don’t like lesbians in case you hadn’t noticed.
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) June 5, 2021
Note the erasure of lesbian.
— Heather-Rose Ryan ☘️🦉🌞🌎 (@HeatherRoseRya1) June 5, 2021
The person who likely did start the fight against the police was a white butch dyke. Apparently no concern about erasing her to promote the fantasy version.
— Richard Herrell (@rkherrell) June 5, 2021
If trans people led the Stonewall uprising…. why didn't Stonewall add the T until 2015?
— Priestess Of Kali (@xxwitchwomanxx) June 4, 2021
The history of America is the history of black trans women.
— A New Radical Centrism (@a_centrism) June 5, 2021
During #pride it is so important that we remember the moon landing of Apollo 11, led by black and trans women. So stunning and brave!
— binge tweeter (@binge_tweeter) June 5, 2021
The Stonewall uprising was led by Black cis and trans women who thirsted for equal rights throughout their lives. #CocaCola
— Leonard Kim (@leokim) June 5, 2021
We have discovered long ago that the trans activists do not let facts get in the way of their agenda.
— HeterodoxOutsider (@HeterodoxOutsi1) June 5, 2021
I HATE when they say shit like this. There ARE photos & arrest records. We know who was there. We also know that there were black gay bars UPTOWN and that the clientele at Stonewall in hasn't changed much since then. I've been there REGULARLY and it's mostly white. 👇
— Tyler Datta 🇺🇲 pronouns = Hail/Hydra (@N3onRobot) June 5, 2021
Women, transgendered people, black people: none of these demographics played a huge role in the Stonewall riots. I'm not saying none were present but they neither made up the majority or the leaders. Gay white men were the majority, like it or not.
— Karen Doe (@thetruthhurt107) June 5, 2021
Lumping every identity category into one big special interest group creates potential single points of failure. For that reason alone, if you care about any of these causes’ resilience, you should resist the push to aggregate.
— Andrew Stern ⚔️ (@android_stern) June 5, 2021
A lot of people are commenting on the flag Shelter used in its tweet. We recently had to look it up: it’s the “progressive” trans flag, with the Pride rainbow but with stripes added to represent the trans community and black and brown people. That thing’s getting crowded.
The flag needs silver and gold to represent the SuperStraight community.
— Ray Giralté (@theRayofToday) June 5, 2021
Wow this is really insane. What kind of flag is that??? It is getting out of control. This flag stands for everyone besides white straight males. Is this group also going to embrace homeless people and people who don’t wan’t to pay rent in the future? I would bet on it… scary.
— Jeremy McDonald (@JeremyM23276412) June 5, 2021
It looks like the alphabet tribe flag has been raped. Notice how the ugly colors stab into the heart of the rainbow? That is a very aggressive design.
There is hostility in that design, and it comes to a sharp point inside the rainbow itself. The rainbow has been penetrated.
— Morgthorak the Undead (@morgthorak) June 5, 2021
I can't take anyone seriously when they post that hideous, nonsensical flag.
— Dave Elliott (@podcastff) June 5, 2021
it is truly an artistic atrocity.
— Heather-Rose Ryan ☘️🦉🌞🌎 (@HeatherRoseRya1) June 5, 2021
The pride flag gives me vertigo
— @squallstrike gab dlive etc (@Squallstrike) June 5, 2021
Someone should ask Barack Obama who started the Stonewall riots; he’s the one who designated the 7.7-acre area the Stonewall National Monument in 2016.
Related:
The 1969 Project? Andrew Sullivan asks if the New York Times has any fact-checkers after its Stonewall piece https://t.co/Pold7MHorY
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 17, 2020
