y'all better quiet down!
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0:00 - 0:07[crowd noise: applause, indistinct yelling]
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0:07 - 0:09Sylvia: [indistinct]
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0:09 - 0:19[crowd noise: booing]
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0:19 - 0:32[crowd noise: booing and yelling]
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0:32 - 0:35Sylvia: Yall better quiet down!
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0:35 - 0:41[crowd noise]
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0:41 - 0:43Sylvia: [indistinct]
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0:44 - 0:47I've been trying to get up here ALL day
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0:47 - 0:50for your gay brothers
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0:50 - 0:52and your gay sisters
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0:52 - 0:54in jail!
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0:54 - 0:58that write me every motherfuckin week
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0:58 - 1:01and ask for your help.
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1:01 - 1:06and you all don't do a goddamn thing for them.
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1:06 - 1:08Have you ever been beaten up?
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1:08 - 1:10And raped?
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1:10 - 1:12and jailed?
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1:14 - 1:17Now think about it.
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1:17 - 1:19They've been beaten up and raped
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1:19 - 1:24and so they have to spend much of their money in jail
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1:24 - 1:26to get their self home
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1:26 - 1:28and try to get their sex change.
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1:28 - 1:32The women have tried to fight for their sex changes,
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1:32 - 1:36or to become women, of the women's liberation.
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1:36 - 1:40And they write S.T.A.R., not the women's group.
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1:40 - 1:42They do not write women.
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1:42 - 1:43They do not write men.
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1:43 - 1:48They write to S.T.A.R., because we're trying to do something for them.
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1:48 - 1:50I have been to jail!
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1:50 - 1:52I have been raped!
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1:52 - 1:55And beaten. Many times!
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1:55 - 2:06By men! Heterosexual men, that do not belong in the homosexual shelter.
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2:06 - 2:08But: do you do anything for them?
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2:08 - 2:14No! You all tell me to go and hide my tail between my legs.
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2:14 - 2:18I will not no longer put up with this shit.
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2:18 - 2:22I have been beaten, I have had my nose broken,
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2:22 - 2:27I have been thrown in jail, I have lost my job,
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2:27 - 2:30I have lost my apartment, for gay liberation.
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2:30 - 2:33And you all treat me this way??
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2:33 - 2:36What the fuck's wrong with you all??
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2:36 - 2:37Think about that!
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2:37 - 2:39[crowd noise: applause]
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2:39 - 2:45I do not believe in a revolution, but you all do.
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2:45 - 2:48I believe in the gay...power.
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2:48 - 2:50I believe in us getting our rights
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2:50 - 2:54or else I would not be out there fighting for our rights.
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2:54 - 2:57That's all I wanted to say to you all people.
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2:57 - 3:01If you all want to know about the people that are in jail,
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3:01 - 3:11and do not forget Bambi L'Amour, Andora Marks, Kenny Messner, and other gay people are in jail,
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3:11 - 3:15come and see the people at S.T.A.R. house on 12th street
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3:15 - 3:22on 640 E. 12th Street, between B and C, Apartment 14.
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3:22 - 3:25The people there are trying to do something,
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3:25 - 3:26for ALL of us,
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3:26 - 3:33and not men and women that belong to a white middle class white club!
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3:33 - 3:37And that's what you all belong to!
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3:37 - 3:40REVOLUTION NOWWWWW!!
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3:40 - 3:43Gimme a G! [crowd: G!]
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3:43 - 3:45Gimme an A! [crowd: A!]
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3:45 - 3:47Gimme a Y! [crowd: Y!]
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3:47 - 3:50Gimme a P! [crowd: P!]
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3:50 - 3:52Gimme a O! [crowd: O!]
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3:52 - 3:55Gimme a W! [crowd: W!]
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3:55 - 3:57Gimme a E! [crowd: E!]
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3:57 - 3:59Gimme a R! [crowd: R!]
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3:59 - 4:03Gay... [voice cracks] [more quietly] Gay power.
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4:03 - 4:05[crowd noise: applause]
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4:05 - 4:08Louder: GAY POWER!!
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4:08 - 4:08[crowd noise: whistling]
- Title:
- y'all better quiet down!
- Description:
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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.
- Video Language:
- English
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