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It sent Zelda to the nuthouse

It sent Scott into a drink

It sent Caesar, Cleopatra

And caused Ilium to sink

Now let's not be pessimistic

I say love is worth a try

Make no mistake, unless it's fake

The price you pay is high

The price you pay is high

When I first came to the Stonewall,

I was the only drag queen there, just about.

I said, "Honey, what do you think, I'm a boy or a girl?"

They didn't answer, so I decided to go in.

'Cause it was a all-men's bar.

Marsha and I thought one day we needed to do something for our own.

That's where STAR was born.

Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries.

Sylvia Lee Rivera deserves all the credit for STAR.

I was just one of the queens that was behind her,

like the vice president of STAR.

She knew exactly what she was talking about.

She was talking about nobody's representing transvestites, ya know?

I had been promised a spot to speak.

And they were having a conflict about the drag queens on stage.

Because we were supposed to be stereotypes.

But if it wasn't for a drag queen, there would be no gay liberation movement.

We're the frontliners.

I said, "Well, I'm gonna speak one way or the other."

Of course, you get the first strange looks.

Ain't bothering me.

Next thing, you become friends with everybody.

I feel that I have liberated a lot of people

just by living here in the suburbs, just by being myself.

Just by being a campy queen.

And they appreciate. They really do.

-Are you taping all this? -Yeah.

-Right now? -Right.

He's gonna try and write an article to try and help us.

I'm trying to get some information about what's going on on West Street,

with the police harassing everybody.

In my whole time of having any dealings with the Sixth Precinct Vice Squad,

these little creeps slapped me...

threatened to kill me,

told me right in the precinct, in front of everybody.

The one with the glasses, he says, "What are you, a girl or a boy?"

Next thing I knew, I was getting punched in my jaw.

The first time, we was all on the corner, and somebody had just said, "Run."

And they just started beating on me and kicking me in the chest.

They do that to a lot of people that run.

He pulled out his gun.

He said, "If you come back down here, I'm gonna shoot you."

Then the other cop said, "I oughta throw him in the water.

But he might be too skinny. He might not hit the bottom."

Yeah.

They seem to believe that it is their job and duty

to extricate all transvestites, to torture transvestites.

I mean, I don’t have any peace at home anymore, doll.

My roommate Randy's really after the people from the Festival Committee.

I mean, he's doing this whole great big trip with all these organizations

to change all these people around lately.

Which can get you murdered, you know.

Honey, and wait until they get ahold of you for taking their money away.

Randy tried to put me in the middle of it.

I tell him I don't bite my tongue for nobody.

I tell him I don’t want to be bothered.

So, honey, we're wondering when the Mob is gonna come with the bullets.

And when the Mob comes, darling, they say,

"Why are you giving out these flyers? What do you got against us?"

"I don’t have anything against youse.

It's just that my roommate suspects...

that youse have been racketeering and stuff."

I've been here since a week before Gay Pride Day this year.

She's not here, but she's here in spirit, Marsha P. Johnson.

Always.

She'll always be in the front of this parade.

Well, Marsha, we tried. That's all I can say.

It's a huge party, and its mission is to fight against discrimination.

In the streets of Rome,

World Gay Pride gathered 200,000 gays, transgender people and lesbians

from Italy, as well as America, France and Germany.