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y'all better quiet down!

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    [crowd noise: applause, indistinct yelling]
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    Sylvia: [indistinct]
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    [crowd noise: booing]
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    [crowd noise: booing and yelling]
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    Sylvia: Yall better quiet down!
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    [crowd noise]
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    Sylvia: [indistinct]
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    I've been trying to get up here ALL day
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    for your gay brothers
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    and your gay sisters
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    in jail!
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    that write me every motherfuckin week
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    and ask for your help.
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    and you all don't do a goddamn thing for them.
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    Have you ever been beaten up?
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    And raped?
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    and jailed?
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    Now think about it.
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    They've been beaten up and raped
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    and so they have to spend much of their money in jail
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    to get their self home
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    and try to get their sex change.
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    The women have tried to fight for their sex changes,
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    or to become women, of the women's liberation.
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    And they write S.T.A.R., not the women's group.
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    They do not write women.
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    They do not write men.
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    They write to S.T.A.R., because we're trying to do something for them.
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    I have been to jail!
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    I have been raped!
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    And beaten. Many times!
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    By men! Heterosexual men, that do not belong in the homosexual shelter.
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    But: do you do anything for them?
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    No! You all tell me to go and hide my tail between my legs.
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    I will not no longer put up with this shit.
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    I have been beaten, I have had my nose broken,
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    I have been thrown in jail, I have lost my job,
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    I have lost my apartment, for gay liberation.
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    And you all treat me this way??
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    What the fuck's wrong with you all??
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    Think about that!
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    [crowd noise: applause]
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    I do not believe in a revolution, but you all do.
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    I believe in the gay...power.
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    I believe in us getting our rights
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    or else I would not be out there fighting for our rights.
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    That's all I wanted to say to you all people.
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    If you all want to know about the people that are in jail,
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    and do not forget Bambi L'Amour, Andora Marks, Kenny Messner, and other gay people are in jail,
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    come and see the people at S.T.A.R. house on 12th street
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    on 640 E. 12th Street, between B and C, Apartment 14.
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    The people there are trying to do something,
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    for ALL of us,
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    and not men and women that belong to a white middle class white club!
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    And that's what you all belong to!
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    REVOLUTION NOWWWWW!!
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    Gimme a G! [crowd: G!]
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    Gimme an A! [crowd: A!]
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    Gimme a Y! [crowd: Y!]
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    Gimme a P! [crowd: P!]
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    Gimme a O! [crowd: O!]
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    Gimme a W! [crowd: W!]
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    Gimme a E! [crowd: E!]
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    Gimme a R! [crowd: R!]
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    Gay... [voice cracks] [more quietly] Gay power.
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    [crowd noise: applause]
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    Louder: GAY POWER!!
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    [crowd noise: whistling]
Title:
y'all better quiet down!
Description:

Sylvia Rivera kicking ass on stage after some radfems & transphobes tried to refuse her the right to speak at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day rally. Said radfems then had their own march in part protesting trans participation in Pride. A precursor to today’s Dyke March.
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