"To erase the inclusion of trans people in the Stonewall riots and the whole history of the uprising is insulting, and it also fictionalizes something that needs to include trans people," he said.

MSNBC star Rachel Maddow outraged a Stonewall Riots hero by claiming the seminal gay rights protest was a 'transgender riot.' The lesbian star, 51, made the comments as she discussed a protest ...

“The Stonewall riots were led by transgender women of color.” A 38-year-old nonbinary Brooklyn resident who rode in for the demonstration, Kalen said that the National Park Service’s ...

but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals — especially transgender women of color — who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for ...

The Stonewall Riots were a series of protests in New York City from June 28 to July 3, 1969. At the time, homosexuality and gender nonconformity was illegal throughout the nation, and locations ...

Trans activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera played a central role in the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan, New York, which marked a major turning point in the fight for LGBTQ rights.

But sadly it’s also nothing new, especially for trans women of color regarding the truth about their central role in the Stonewall Inn riots in New ... Liberation Front poster for the first ...

On June 28, 1969, transgender and queer New Yorkers fought back against discriminatory police raids in what are now known as the Stonewall Riots, galvanizing the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movement ...

It was there that the modern gay rights movement was jumpstarted after a series of riots — known as the “uprising” — broke out in 1969 after police tried to raid the Stonewall Inn.