: Before the famous Stonewall Inn raid, other collective resistances occurred, such as the Cooper Do-nuts riot (1959) in Los Angeles and the Compton’s Cafeteria riot (1966) in San Francisco, where trans women and drag queens fought back against police targeting
Trans culture has also redefined language. Terms like (a trans person who hasn’t realized their identity), “deadnaming” (using a trans person’s former name), and “gender euphoria” (the joy of living authentically) have entered global queer lexicon. Trans artists in ballroom culture—immortalized by the documentary Paris Is Burning —created entire systems of kinship (houses) that provided shelter and dignity when biological families rejected them.