Understanding the Transgender Community Within LGBTQ+ Culture: History, Intersectionality, and the Fight for Visibility
Before the famous 1969 riots, gender-nonconforming people led early resistances, such as the 1959 Cooper Do-nuts riot in Los Angeles and the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot in San Francisco.
A common point of confusion within mainstream cultural discourse is the conflation of gender identity and sexual orientation. While related through shared communities, they describe entirely different human experiences. Gender Identity