: Years before Stonewall, trans and gender-nonconforming individuals fought back against police harassment at the 1959 Cooper Donuts Riot in Los Angeles and the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco.
: Iconic figures like Marsha P. Johnson , a Black transgender woman, were central to the 1969 Stonewall Riots, which shifted the movement from quiet "homophile" organizations to vocal "Gay Liberation". longmint movies shemale
How historians are documenting the lives of transgender people : Years before Stonewall