SoLittleTime

Something everyone can think about as we head into Pride Sunday: Silence = Death …a phrase that has followed me through most of my 52 years, and that still has a place in our lives today. Think back to the Holocaust, the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, the Stonewall Riots, and the long dark years of the AIDS crisis. It’s been a very long and difficult road…and we’re nowhere near done yet; however, we do have stars that have lit the way and shown each one of us what power we possess… Marsha P. Johnson Stormé DeLarverie Sir Lady Java Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Susan Stryker Felicia Elizondo Tamara Ching …history is FULL of examples, but today I say your names. I am so grateful that my big sisters found the courage to fight for me.

"The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life."