| Event | Date | Purpose | |-------|------|---------| | | March 31 | Celebrate trans people, raise awareness of their achievements. | | Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) | November 20 | Memorialize trans people lost to anti-trans violence. | | Pride Month | June | Celebrated by entire LGBTQ+ community; trans people have central roles (especially trans women of color like Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera at Stonewall). |
The popular narrative of LGBTQ history often begins with the Stonewall Uprising of 1969. While mainstream media frequently whitewashes this event into a story of gay men fighting back, the truth is far more radical:
Three years before Stonewall, transgender women and drag queens in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district resisted police harassment, marking one of the first recorded LGBTQ+ uprisings in United States history.
| Event | Date | Purpose | |-------|------|---------| | | March 31 | Celebrate trans people, raise awareness of their achievements. | | Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) | November 20 | Memorialize trans people lost to anti-trans violence. | | Pride Month | June | Celebrated by entire LGBTQ+ community; trans people have central roles (especially trans women of color like Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera at Stonewall). |
The popular narrative of LGBTQ history often begins with the Stonewall Uprising of 1969. While mainstream media frequently whitewashes this event into a story of gay men fighting back, the truth is far more radical:
Three years before Stonewall, transgender women and drag queens in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district resisted police harassment, marking one of the first recorded LGBTQ+ uprisings in United States history.