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Dante “Tex” Gill was a pimp and sold prostituted women to men.

From the official obituary:

“For years, according to police, Ms. Gill ran a string of parlors as fronts for prostitution”

“Born Lois Jean Gill in the city, Ms. Gill was a savvy businesswoman who became one of the most notorious of the city’s massage parlor operators. State and local authorities had long believed her parlors, including the Japanese Meditation Temple, were little more than brothels, but she seemed beyond the reach of the law for years until the Internal Revenue Service stepped in.”

From the Pittsburg Post Gazette:

“Her rap sheet for providing prostitutes to men dated as far back as 1964.”

The movie synopsis hints at this as well:

While the historical information is overshadowed by the ScarJo drama, it is easy enough to find and I can’t help but wonder why no one has bothered to mention this, especially the radfems who are anti-porn and anti-pimp.

And I’m seeing sites that have the gall to call Gill a “trans activist” when it seems all Gill did was amass a fortune on prostituting women and going to prison for tax fraud.

Regardless of who is cast or what you think of Gill’s sexuality or gender identity, I’m not looking forward to another lurid film that romanticises the objectification, buying, and selling of women’s bodies (no doubt through a male-gazey lens) and all under the guise “progressive thought” and “queer friendliness.”

@2:54 “The definitive turning point came when a lesbian had been inside the bar and was being roughed up by the police as they took her out of the bar into a patrol wagon. She also said to the onlookers, she said, ‘Why don’t you guys do something?’”

In this podcast from Making Gay History, you can listen to Marsha P. Johnson in her own words explain how she showed up at Stonewall after the rioting had already been incited by an employee of the bar, Storme Delarverie.

There are a lot of myths surrounding an event as legendary as the Stonewall Riots. Even Marsha had to correct the record that Sylvia Rivera wasn’t there the first night. But you don’t need to wield historical revisionism against gays and lesbians as if they owe trans people everything for rights secured by gay people.