Part Three: The Badass Disabled LGBTQ+ Women History Forgot

Joanne Garrett, Anita Onang, Pat Parker, Linda Tillery, & Jay Casselberry (Cathy Cade Photographs Collection GLC 41)

If you listen to some people nowadays, to be anything other than heterosexual is a new phenomenon. “Back in the day”, they’ll say “People weren’t gay. They didn’t have same-sex partners, or come out as trans. It’s all just the modern world going mad”.

If you do listen to those people, I bet you’d also believe that all disabled people were abandoned at birth, that…