It is this which proves to be most contradictory to the gay male community I find myself within. I watch as the quest for the almighty dollar in the form of gay capitalism looms over the entire weekend. This is directly connected to the male supremacy and gay male sexual politics that pervade, and in fact run these events. Men make and control more money than women. Gay men make and control more money than lesbians.
Money is power under capitalism.
Gay men have power. This sexism is inherent in the legacy of Stonewall. As Marilyn Frye argues in her book The Politics of Reality, drag is a form of male bonding. It is men, donning the trappings of femininity, and then finding this entertaining and funny. This is certainly not to discredit the heroic actions of the individuals involved in the Stonewall Riots, but rather to look at the new understandings and articulations of sexism that have progressed since the gay male and women's liberation movements of the late sixties.