As she walked down the street, Jamie noticed a group of people gathered outside a club, chatting and laughing together. She recognized some of them as familiar faces from the local LGBTQ center, where she had met many of her new friends.
Three years before Stonewall, trans women and drag queens in San Francisco fought back against police harassment at Compton’s Cafeteria The Stonewall Uprising (1969): Figures like Marsha P. Johnson Sylvia Rivera
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