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1970s Gay Rights Activist Kitty Tsui
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 4.07.19 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T23:08:44+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Around the same time, Kitty Tsui was coming out. Kitty, who like me was born in Hong Kong, but spent part of her youth in England, arrived in the U.S. in 1968. As she would later recall, when she came out at age 21 in San Francisco in the early 1970s, “the faces that surrounded me were white.” She sought visibility: “As an Asian American lesbian I am unrepresented, omitted, silenced and invisible. I write to fight erasure, to demand a voice, to become visible, to reclaim my history. I write to turn on the light.”plain2023-04-03T23:08:44+00:001970sGina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49