When police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, the patrons who fought back were not the "respectable" gays. They were the most marginalized: trans women, drag queens, butch lesbians, and homeless queer youth. , a Black trans woman and self-identified drag queen, and Sylvia Rivera , a Latina trans woman, are historically credited as the vanguard of the resistance.

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Rivera, co-founder of the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), famously clashed with later mainstream gay organizations like the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). When the GAA began pushing for assimilationist goals (like anti-discrimination laws that excluded trans people), Rivera stormed their podium, shouting, "You all go to bars because that’s the only place you can go. I have been thrown out of those bars. I have no civil rights."