Before the famous 1969 riots, gender-nonconforming people led early resistances, such as the 1959 Cooper Do-nuts riot in Los Angeles and the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot in San Francisco.
In the 1950s and 60s, state-sanctioned persecution was rampant. It was illegal for a person to wear clothing "not of their assigned sex" in places like New York and California. This meant that a butch lesbian wearing pants or a trans woman wearing a dress could be arrested for "masquerading." The police didn’t ask for medical charts; they arrested anyone who looked "out of place." big cock black shemales