Marsha Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and the History of Pride Month
In San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, trans women and drag queens, who were frequently harassed by police, staged an uprising. This was one of the first recorded instances of collective militant resistance by poor, working-class trans people. shemale smoking thumbs
Before the well-known 1969 Stonewall riots, several smaller-scale acts of resistance set the stage for queer liberation: Marsha Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and the History of