: Figures like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were instrumental during and after the 1969 Stonewall Riots, founding organizations like Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) to support homeless queer youth and sex workers.
: Before the famous Stonewall Uprising, trans people led resistance against police harassment at events like the 1959 Cooper Donuts Riot in Los Angeles and the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco. shemales yong
: During the late 1970s and 1980s, the "gay rights" movement sometimes distanced itself from trans issues to seek mainstream respectability, a tension that began to heal through coalitional work during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. : Figures like Marsha P
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