Turning systemic exclusion into a platform for advocacy and legal reform.
Transgender people, particularly trans women of color, were at the forefront of the most critical turning points in LGBTQ+ history. shemales tube party
As Sylvia Rivera screamed from the stage at the 1973 Gay Pride Rally, drowning in boos from the gay men who wanted her to shut up about trans rights: "You all tell me, 'Go away, we don’t want you anymore.' Well, I’ve been beaten. I’ve been thrown in jail. I’ve lost my job. I’ve lost my apartment. And you all want to forget the people that put their asses on the line!" Turning systemic exclusion into a platform for advocacy
Popular history often credits the 1969 Stonewall Uprising to gay men, but the catalyst was overwhelmingly transgender and gender-nonconforming people—many of them people of color. Marsha P. Johnson, a self-identified drag queen and trans activist, and Sylvia Rivera, a Latina trans woman and co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), were on the front lines of the riots that launched the modern gay liberation movement. I’ve been thrown in jail