If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share Image
People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule. — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share
You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people… — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share
I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried… — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share
My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you. — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share
surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival! — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share
Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught. — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share
I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share
“Some mistakes in life are not punishable, others teach you a lesson you never forget.” — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share
I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on. — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share
“But if theory is not the crystallized resin of experience, it ceases to be a guide to action.” — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share
We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly… — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share
