Transgender individuals, particularly transgender women of color, experience disproportionately high rates of violence, homelessness, and discrimination in employment and housing. Conclusion
Yet, in the decades that followed, as the movement sought legitimacy and political power, a strategic but damaging shift occurred. Mainstream gay and lesbian organizations, aiming for respectability in the eyes of straight society, often sidelined the more "radical" and visible trans and gender-nonconforming members. Sylvia Rivera was famously shouted down at a pride rally in 1973 for demanding that the movement not forget the drag queens and trans sex workers who had thrown the first bricks.
Transgender individuals, particularly transgender women of color, experience disproportionately high rates of violence, homelessness, and discrimination in employment and housing. Conclusion
Yet, in the decades that followed, as the movement sought legitimacy and political power, a strategic but damaging shift occurred. Mainstream gay and lesbian organizations, aiming for respectability in the eyes of straight society, often sidelined the more "radical" and visible trans and gender-nonconforming members. Sylvia Rivera was famously shouted down at a pride rally in 1973 for demanding that the movement not forget the drag queens and trans sex workers who had thrown the first bricks.
The Fruits We Bear: Portraits of Trans Liberation
