Amazing essay! Thanks so much for sharing it with the Prism & Pen community. When I marched with Queer Nation back in the day, back when some were still debating over whether our alphabet soup should start with G or start with L, I think few doubted that the "enemy" were the majority of the public who felt justified in oppressing any and all deviance from gender and sexual orthodoxy.

We took to the streets in NYC because we were being bashed in our spaces, in Greenwich Village and the east Village, by people who didn't care what we labeled ourselves, only that were "deviant."

Little has changed, really, other than that a few of us (straight acting, heteronormative gay white men for the most part) have been welcomed into the realm of "normal."

Those of us who have gained a modicum of "respectability" have a responsibility to keep fighting until all of us are free to be who we are.