Popular history credits the 1969 Stonewall Riots as the birth of the modern gay rights movement. But the heroes throwing the first bricks and heels were not cisgender gay men—they were trans women, drag queens, and gender-nonconforming people of color.
Popular history credits the 1969 Stonewall Riots as the birth of the modern gay rights movement. But the heroes throwing the first bricks and heels were not cisgender gay men—they were trans women, drag queens, and gender-nonconforming people of color.
