People Quote by Alaska

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness…

— Edmund White

There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that is getting…

— Todd Haynes

It's not often that you get to read something that just feels very original for a star but also something that feels like it's…

— Jeremy Irvine

Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They…

— Ilana Mercer

While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often,…

— Barack Obama

We need to talk about representation for queer people in the media and also in law. And there's a long history of drag queens…

— Sasha Velour

I didnt know of any homophile movements pre-Stonewall.

— Sean Maher

I'd been going to jail for like, 10 years before the Stonewall.

— Marsha P. Johnson

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I didn't know of any homophile movements pre-Stonewall.

— Sean Maher

I have a standup I do in gay bars, and it's filthy. I have to assess the crowd. If it's an all-gay crowd, I'll…

— Leslie Jordan

There are a lot of gay transvestites who have been in jail for no reason at all.

— Marsha P. Johnson