"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Geo. Orwell, 1984

Erased from History

Citation needed: Stonewall uprising was lead by black cis and trans women who faced housing issues

I’m far more concerned about the rewriting of the history of our country than I am the history of the gay rights/transvestite movement, but it’s the same issue, and the same process; it’s all as one.

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.

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.”

(From Twitter) “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.”

You can go to the link and read the numerous tweets from gays who were there and who refute this lie, but these two should suffice:

Again, I’m not particularly worried about who sparked the gay rights movement, but revisionist history promulgated by the Times (one commenter referred to the NYT’s effort as “The 1969 Project”, is, a year later, being repeated as accepted truth.

It’s not just the Times, of course. Witness what happened just last week when the WaPo was caught out for suppressing the truth fifteen months ago: It simply went back and stealth-edited its original article

There’s historical precedent for this, of course: