They deny women [their own] sexuality
or
or to force it [male sexuality] upon them
"I'm remembering the busts in the bars in Canada. packed in the police vans...I never told you what they did to us down there-queens in one tank, stone butches in the next-but you knew. One at a time they would drag our brothers out of the cells, slapping and punching them, locking the bars behind them fast in case we lost control and tried to stop them, as if we could. They'd handcuff a brother's wrists to his ankles or chain him, face against the bars. They made us watch. Sometimes we'd catch the eyes of the terrorized victim, or the soon-to-be, caught in the vise of torture, and we'd say gently, "I'm with you honey, look at me, it's OK, we'll take you home."We never cried in front of the cops. We knew we were next.
The nest time the cell door opens it will be me they drag out and chain spread-eagle to the bars."
-Stone Butch Blues, pg. 8
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