Three years before the famous events in New York, transgender women and drag queens in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district stood up against systemic police harassment. The riot at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria marked one of the first recorded instances of collective, physical resistance to the oppression of queer people in United States history. It directly led to the creation of a network of trans-led social, psychological, and medical support services. The Stonewall Inn (1969)
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The popular narrative of LGBTQ history often centers the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City. The heroes of that night, according to sanitized history, were gay men. But the truth is far more trans. Three years before the famous events in New