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We are the sort of people everyone was taught to despise-and now we are shaking off the chains of self-hatred and marching on your citadels of repres… - Martha Shelley
" "We are the sort of people everyone was taught to despise-and now we are shaking off the chains of self-hatred and marching on your citadels of repression.
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About Martha Shelley
Martha Shelley (born December 27, 1943) is an activist, writer, and poet best known for her involvement in lesbian feminist activism in the USA.
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Liberalism isn't good enough for us. And we are just beginning to discover it. Your friendly smile of acceptance-from the safe position of heterosexuality-isn't enough. As long as you cherish that secret belief that you are a little bit better because you sleep with the opposite sex, you are still asleep in your cradle and we will be the nightmare that awakens you.
True, some gays play the same role-games among themselves that straights do. Isn't every minority group fucked over by the values of the majority culture? But the really important thing about being gay is that you are forced to notice how much sex-role differentiation is pure artifice, is nothing but a game.
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