sappho-s:

When the bigots came in, it was time to fight, and fight we did. We fought hard, butch and femme, men and women together.

When the music stopped and it was the cops at the door, someone plugged the music back in and we switched dance partners. We in our suits and ties paired off with our drag queen sisters in their dresses and pumps.

Letter to a fifties femme from a stone butch, Leslie Feinberg