On that hot June night, it was not polite, suit-wearing gay men who threw the first bricks. It was the most marginalized: homeless transgender youth, drag queens, and butch lesbians. Johnson and Rivera went on to found STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), an organization dedicated to housing homeless transgender youth—a population that mainstream gay organizations often ignored because their "gender deviance" was considered too radical.
The transgender community has profoundly enriched LGBTQ+ culture: blackshemalepics
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