Y’ALL BETTER QUIET DOWN
SYLVIA RIVERA’S SPEECH AT THE
1973 LIBERATION DAY RALLY
Y’all better quiet down.
I’ve been trying to get up here all day, for your gay brothers and your
gay sisters in jail! They’re writing me every motherfuckin’ week and ask for your
help, and you all don’t do a god damn thing for them. Have you ever been beaten
up and raped in jail? Now think about it. They’ve been beaten up and raped,
after they had to spend much of their money in jail to get their self home and
try to get their sex change. The women have tried to fight for their sex changes,
or to become women of the women’s liberation. And they write STAR, not the
women’s group. They do not write women. They do not write men. They write
STAR, because we’re trying to do something for them.

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