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When the police raided Stonewall for the umpteenth time, it was trans women of color who threw the first bricks, bottles, and punches. In the ensuing days, they formed the core of the newly militant Gay Liberation Front. Yet, within a few years, as the movement sought "respectability" to win mainstream acceptance, these same leaders were pushed out. Sylvia Rivera famously had to crash a 1973 gay pride rally, fighting her way to the stage to shout: "You’ve all forgotten the street queens! You’ve all forgotten the ones who were on the front lines!"

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The most famous catalyst of the modern gay rights movement—the Stonewall Inn riots of 1969—was not sparked by middle-class white gay men. The frontline fighters were street queens, trans women, and drag kings, most notably Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. These were homeless, radical, and unapologetically gender-nonconforming individuals who had endured relentless police brutality. When the police raided Stonewall for the umpteenth