Queer people and the U.S. communist movement, 1969-1979
In 1966, one of the first transgender-led rebellions occurred in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot served as the prelude to the founding of the modern queer movement. Three years later, on June 28, 1969, there was another rebellion — at New York City’s Stonewall Inn. …