I am Sookie Simone. I am 65 now. I am from Texas. I have been through so much in my journey as a TRANSSISTER. I knew at 5 years of age what I was. I did not have a name for it yet. I knew by 15 when I saw my first Drag Show in Shreveport, Louisiana at the FLORENTINE. I saw my first Transsexuals. I understand the way it was because I have had to fight the battles for the LGBTQ population. This incredible documentary tells the truth about the real lives of brave Queens. Long live the Queens!!💄💋❤️🍒🌈😻🐈⬛🙏🏻😇👑
@@Msqles just because you live in a sad, restricted and boring prison that you call life and you can't solve your issues with therapy doesn't mean everybody else should be living a sad, restricted and boring life too. Heal your sickness and go read a book on the issue before commenting on it.
I just watched this documentary again, and really enjoy seeing the places I had been to years ago !! I turned 70 in May of 2021, and had been to COMPTON'S as a young queen !! I Love San Francisco !! It truly was our " Oz" !! Sending Love, Monique 1 ..
I;m now in my 70’s, and remembered the Compton. It was fun to see this. However I wonder if you asked a young Trans, or a gay person born today, will they remember that it wasn’t the Stonewall, but the Compton that started the Gay movement……
At eighteen I was arrested in the Tenderloin in San Francisco !! There was many of the " girls" , arrested for just being beautiful !! I wasn't doing anything but going into a hotel to visit a transvestite friend that had worked in a bar in the city I was from !! We went to SF, just to see her and we were charged with obstruction !! I'm going on 72, and still remember how horrible the cops treated us !! A couple of the "girl's" were beat badly, for No Reason !! They were so mean !!
I'm 28 and openly trans and I love learning about our radical history. I relate to those women so much and I'm so proud to know the names and faces of my ancestors in the queer struggle. This was beautiful and very moving
INCREDIBLE. An absolutely incredible documentary covering an important episode in American history. This should be a part of every American high school history curriculum.
Yes! I found *Screaming Queens* through *Stuff you should know* and their podcast involving the Compton Cafeteria and Stryker and Silverman's work. For all of us who wanted to know "What happened before Stonewall" and "What *was* that riot in the late 1960s". #KQED #StuffYouShouldKnow #ComptonCafeteria
This was fascinating. I lived in SF in the late 80s and early 90s and never knew of this history. Very proud of these women. They made history. Thank you for posting.
Can we get a movie? A loving, powerful remembrance of the strength, the hardship, the torture, and the enormous will and longing to be themselves of these amazing people? As a transwoman, these people are heros and they deserve to be seen as those in the public eye!
I didn't kow a lot of this as a gay man in 2022. Now I understand why Police have no place in Pride.... Pride is not a parade, it's a fucking riot, And we should be angry, we should shove fetishes down peoples throats, We should parade all our diversity and individualism/ It's because of people that fought, for many years. I recently outed myself at work asking if I was allowed to bring my boyfriend for a social club night out. And nobody even cared, It was just treated as being totally normal and boring. no even "Oh you're gay?".. just plain normal.. Thank you so much the people that came before me and fucking fought. You, YOU, gave me that moment where I could be gay, and nobody cared. I'm respected for who I am because of you. Thank you
This is such an amazing documentary. I cannot adequately express my thank to you Susan for your work in allowing us to see and hear the people who's fight and activism helped to give us the rights we have. We stand on their shoulders and we must remember to never stop fighting so we can pass on even greater freedoms to the next generation, or their battles were for nothing.
Thanks for sharing @SuziFoxLondon. We revisit this history again in an episode of If Cities Could Dance, featuring the first openly trans dance choreographer in the U.S. Sean Dorsey and his recent work to dream more expansively for trans and queer folks. Let us know what you think: ruclips.net/video/HnP2yjqrZDg/видео.html
Thank you so much for this. I lived in Sf on those very same streets less than 20 years later not even realizing how vital historical gay rights began right on the streets I ran on.
I'm so proud to be a part of this community! It's a true inspiration for me, and thiss film touched me on an emotional level I have selsom felt before. Keep slaying queens and remember you are loved!
I'd loved this documentary. Thank you very much Susan Stryker for this, and for allo your work. This is a wonderful tribute for so great human rights defenders.Chapeau!
Thanks KQED for sharing this film! Thanks Susan Stryker for making it! Thanks to everyone the film is about for everything you've done (and some keep on doing!)!
Blessed be Compton's for its presence and function in the Tenderloin. Blessed be the inspired resistance at Compton's. They who endured in those days have their "progeny" in the generations who have followed with so much greater freedom of assembly, assertion and choice.
I lived across the bay from SF as a kid in the seventies and enjoyed visiting SF in the eighties and early nineties. It would probably break my heart now seeing how SF has changed.
Soo proud of you for making this documentary! And to the Trans and Gay people I owe everything to you! Thank you for your service! Standing up for our rights! I love my Trans Brothers and Sisters and will fight for you! We’re all we got ! 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈 Sylvia Rivera Marsha P Johnson too!
i just finished watching this for my queer studies course and this was an amazing video to really introduce life before stonewall and i love the fact that it was posted to show us real videos of the people who actually went through this and their points of view!
I love seeing San Francisco just before I was born....my parents lived there for a couple years before moving to the suburbs......I lived there in the late 80s and went to my first gay pride parade.....
heard about on radio this morning. had to look up and watch. very interesting. liked the fact ms Amanda was a clerk typist and then a secretary..you dont hear of those jobs anymore. sign of the times.
the trans joy in this documentary is so amazing to see. its really eye opening to see how far we've come even though sometimes it feels like we haven't!!
I'm gay but not into the whole gay activism thing. But I love history and this was an interesting documentary about a little remembered incident that lead up to Stonewall. So sad to see people were treated this way in none other than San Francisco. You may not agree with someone's lifestyle, but no one should have to go through what these individuals went through in 1966.
Just remember, you now have the choice to not be into the gay rights thing because brave people put their lives on the line. Remember them. Happy pride month!!! 🖤🏳️⚧️
Love it. I lived in SF in 1970-72 as a kid. We lived on 23rd near Church and took the transit everywhere. Saw all kinds of people. My mom picked up some hitchhikers and told me they were transvestites. I remember the streets all torn up for BART and when the new cathedral was built and the shadow looks like a breast!
wonderful doc, was wondering if the serial killer in the tenderloin they're referring to was The Doodler or was there another around the same time? anyone know?
incredible doccumentary. Does anyone know what other movies are shown in the doccumentary? I know that Queens At Heart is shown, but I don't recognize the black and white interview being shown throughout (such as at 19:00)
I would love to know this also and if I get a chance i might try to find out... hopefully I get a notification if someone else comments before then too
What's interesting but isn't mentioned here, but back in the '80s when I came out and knew other transsexuals a lot of them survived by getting on SSI (Supplemental Security Income) or if they worked enough and had paid into the system (usually during their male life and jobs) they would get SSDI disability benefits. I never knew any that were prostitutes, though. They either had jobs or they were getting benefits. I had low-paying jobs and when I was in my late 50s I applied for and got SSI/SSDI. These services may not have been possible back in the 1960's.
It's been so many years but finally I have watched this with hope in my heart that people will be able to live, dress and BE as their true selves, as if clothes make the gender.. THEY DON'T. Every one of you ladies are brave and amazing and a shit ton better at makeup than this cisgirl. ;) It's a privilege to see how far you all have come and an honor to fight alongside if you ever need it.
Second and National back in Milwaukee was the same sort of neighborhood when I lived there. The ghettoization of gay neighborhoods in the states unfortunately still continues. You'd think after 57 years (well more, to be fair) that there might be some progress made.
Is Felicia Elizondo still alive? She hasn't posted anything on Facebook in several years. I remember seeing her on the Phil Donahue show years ago when she appeared with her sister about transsexuals and their families. She didn't mention anything about this part of her life, though. Only that she was living and working as a female and few people knew she was transsexual.
* Tom Snyder, Dina Shore, Mike Douglas had Trans guests years before. Then came Phil Donahue, Sally Jesse Raphael, Jane Whitney, Geraldo Rivera during the 1980s. **
What a difference between than and now. Than a person risked their life to be what they needed to be. You see this in religion. Christians risked death to practice their beliefs. The risk of ones life to live truly brings an honesty to the behavior. There is no room for ego, narcissism, entitlement or hidden agendas. Every movement becomes corrupted by it's success. Feminism is an excellent example. It morphed into hate and attacks on men. It has become intolerant of others.
I love the LGBTQIA PLUS COMMUNITY!!!! Excellent job 👌👌👌!!!! In 1994???? My elder half brother???? Made a disgusting homophobic remark!!!! About homosexual men!!!! I was fuckin horrified and told my mother I didn't want to eat my food in the living room with him and that I was going into the kitchen !!! I was 12 at the time!!!
Meanwhile, the butch queens were living in the comfort of their privilege- & did NOTHING when the dolls were harassed & attacked by cops who were trans attracted. The Dolls paved the way.🕊
I agree, In my case it was my family that 'outed' me a few times when I was in jobs. I'm sooo grateful to be retired now and no longer have to work and deal with that sh!t.
It was serious and heavy. People were (and still are) fighting for their rights and the riot didn't simply happen overnight, the tension between the police and drag queens and trans people built up as it became worse. People were in danger and threatened because of how they identified. It would be impossible to make a documentary on the movement without addressing the serious reality of it.
Pygiana wow really? That was the most entertaining format i could fathom to present a topic that serious & heavy don’t come close to these horrors that still occur. I smiled.
What do you mean that story has never been told-- Gay men habve passed it along for years. It was part of the oral history lesson even for us back east So your welcome because I am sure that for most tran persons this would have been new information.
Lot of gays and lesbians hated trans girls,they blamed homophobia on trans ppl. Plus lot of gay men thought trans women were gay men afraid to be gay, lesbians hated trans women were men in dresses ( some things never change ...) That conflict is still there,has been all along. The height of irony was at stonewall 25 where heritage of pride, the group that runs pride, banned trans groups from marching under their own identity/ group name. The people running it said it was to show how gays and lesbians were normal people who wanted the American dream of the corporate job and the white picket fence. Pretty pathetic. Among other things the hop people pretended like stonewall was gay men and lesbians in three piece suits protesting for their rights.
3:51 This lady, Amanda, has got it all very wrong. Jehova's witnesses don't drag crosses, they do not use the cross or believe in the Christian cross which they say was a pole. Nor have they said these people would burn in hell because they do not believe hell exists.
I am Sookie Simone. I am 65 now. I am from Texas. I have been through so much in my journey as a TRANSSISTER. I knew at 5 years of age what I was. I did not have a name for it yet. I knew by 15 when I saw my first Drag Show in Shreveport, Louisiana at the FLORENTINE. I saw my first Transsexuals. I understand the way it was because I have had to fight the battles for the LGBTQ population.
This incredible documentary tells the truth about the real lives of brave Queens. Long live the Queens!!💄💋❤️🍒🌈😻🐈⬛🙏🏻😇👑
Blessings to you for sharing your experience with all of us.
Gay man cross dresser not woman
@@Msqles just because you live in a sad, restricted and boring prison that you call life and you can't solve your issues with therapy doesn't mean everybody else should be living a sad, restricted and boring life too. Heal your sickness and go read a book on the issue before commenting on it.
So just like me, I had the same feelings from the age of 4 to 5 .Great to hear you story. 😊
I just watched this documentary again, and really enjoy seeing the places I had been to years ago !! I turned 70 in May of 2021, and had been to COMPTON'S as a young queen !! I Love San Francisco !! It truly was our " Oz" !! Sending Love, Monique 1 ..
Much love to you, Mother.
Good to you, from a younger bi guy, Ms. Martie Gallego, hope this brings you happiness
I;m now in my 70’s, and remembered the Compton. It was fun to see this. However I wonder if you asked a young Trans, or a gay person born today, will they remember that it wasn’t the Stonewall, but the Compton that started the Gay movement……
@@jamesdenning1080 Thank You !! Yes You brought me much happiness !!❤
@@Kiki-D-Kimono Thank You so much for the reply !! Luv Ya , from Mama !!
When you're surprised the cop did the right thing, then find out in the credits that's precisely why he's not a cop anymore
Its difficult to find good cops sometimes cos they often get fired for being said good cop.
@@freyjasvagabond especially back than
Yeah, I got whiplash from jamming with the good vibes to this good cop being accused of taking narcotics.
At eighteen I was arrested in the Tenderloin in San Francisco !! There was many of the " girls" , arrested for just being beautiful !! I wasn't doing anything but going into a hotel to visit a transvestite friend that had worked in a bar in the city I was from !! We went to SF, just to see her and we were charged with obstruction !! I'm going on 72, and still remember how horrible the cops treated us !! A couple of the "girl's" were beat badly, for No Reason !! They were so mean !!
And people can't understand why we want to keep cops out of SF Pride
I'm 28 and openly trans and I love learning about our radical history. I relate to those women so much and I'm so proud to know the names and faces of my ancestors in the queer struggle. This was beautiful and very moving
Know, in this world There are people that love you and respect you. And we care.
I’m so proud of all my Gay &Trans brothers and sisters! You really deserve an award! I can never repay you for all you’ve done!
INCREDIBLE. An absolutely incredible documentary covering an important episode in American history. This should be a part of every American high school history curriculum.
Yes! I found *Screaming Queens* through *Stuff you should know* and their podcast involving the Compton Cafeteria and Stryker and Silverman's work. For all of us who wanted to know "What happened before Stonewall" and "What *was* that riot in the late 1960s". #KQED #StuffYouShouldKnow #ComptonCafeteria
This was fascinating. I lived in SF in the late 80s and early 90s and never knew of this history. Very proud of these women. They made history. Thank you for posting.
Can we get a movie? A loving, powerful remembrance of the strength, the hardship, the torture, and the enormous will and longing to be themselves of these amazing people?
As a transwoman, these people are heros and they deserve to be seen as those in the public eye!
I agree
I didn't kow a lot of this as a gay man in 2022. Now I understand why Police have no place in Pride.... Pride is not a parade, it's a fucking riot, And we should be angry, we should shove fetishes down peoples throats, We should parade all our diversity and individualism/ It's because of people that fought, for many years. I recently outed myself at work asking if I was allowed to bring my boyfriend for a social club night out. And nobody even cared, It was just treated as being totally normal and boring. no even "Oh you're gay?".. just plain normal.. Thank you so much the people that came before me and fucking fought. You, YOU, gave me that moment where I could be gay, and nobody cared. I'm respected for who I am because of you. Thank you
This is such an amazing documentary. I cannot adequately express my thank to you Susan for your work in allowing us to see and hear the people who's fight and activism helped to give us the rights we have. We stand on their shoulders and we must remember to never stop fighting so we can pass on even greater freedoms to the next generation, or their battles were for nothing.
Thanks for sharing @SuziFoxLondon. We revisit this history again in an episode of If Cities Could Dance, featuring the first openly trans dance choreographer in the U.S. Sean Dorsey and his recent work to dream more expansively for trans and queer folks. Let us know what you think: ruclips.net/video/HnP2yjqrZDg/видео.html
Susan Stryker has done and will doubtless to continue to produce work of clarity and balance. I enjoy the kindness so integral to her work.
We had to watch this for our Gender and Sexuality course. This is such a well done documentary and I am so glad we watched this.
Thank you so much for this. I lived in Sf on those very same streets less than 20 years later not even realizing how vital historical gay rights began right on the streets I ran on.
I lived at 350 Turk and never realized how historic our neighborhood was
Same late 80s....I lived in the haight and Church street too.....
I live a few blocks from there. The street where it happened has been legally changed to "Gene Compton Cafeteria street."
Thank you Susan for this brilliant documentary. An honor to have watched this history you have uncovered.
I'm so proud to be a part of this community! It's a true inspiration for me, and thiss film touched me on an emotional level I have selsom felt before. Keep slaying queens and remember you are loved!
why were transgender issues neglected in the 1960s and 1970s gay rights movement?
What an amazing documentary. I think this is is about the 3rd of 4th time I've watched it. It's so inspiring.
I'd loved this documentary. Thank you very much Susan Stryker for this, and for allo your work. This is a wonderful tribute for so great human rights defenders.Chapeau!
This is eye opening in what had happened in my history live as a Transgender women in today's society thank you so much for this..
It was wonderful to watch this video again during October Ourstory Month. Remember the lessons here, when we need to fight back then fight back!!
Thanks KQED for sharing this film! Thanks Susan Stryker for making it! Thanks to everyone the film is about for everything you've done (and some keep on doing!)!
Blessed be Compton's for its presence and function in the Tenderloin. Blessed be the inspired resistance at Compton's. They who endured in those days have their "progeny" in the generations who have followed with so much greater freedom of assembly, assertion and choice.
Thank you so much for this beautiful and thoughtful piece. How fortunate are we now to be standing on the shoulders of such giants?
I lived across the bay from SF as a kid in the seventies and enjoyed visiting SF in the eighties and early nineties. It would probably break my heart now seeing how SF has changed.
What a great documentary. I wonder what ever happened to the queen who threw the coffee to start the riot ?
Stormie Delarverie . They died in the 90s.
I was born in 1967 a year after the Compton riots, four years later when I was five years old. I felt that I was born as a trans lady.
Pride was an UPRISING...not a riot..
@@twebster179 I KNOW I was expressing the aknowlegement of what I saw!
@@twebster179 that's stonewall
Amazing. Speechless. To handle that in a way that was actually fun and kinda uplifting. Kudos to the bravery show here by all involved ❤️👍🏻👏🏻
Just learning about this from episode of SYSK. Thank you so much for raising this "lost" event from history's graveyard.
Rest In Peace AMANDA ST.JAYMES ! Soo much Love and respect ✊ for you queen 👑! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Angel 😇
Soo proud of you for making this documentary! And to the Trans and Gay people I owe everything to you! Thank you for your service! Standing up for our rights! I love my Trans Brothers and Sisters and will fight for you! We’re all we got ! 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈 Sylvia Rivera Marsha P Johnson too!
"Clubs are trump." Much more accurate motto for police than "Serve and Protect," methinks.
i just finished watching this for my queer studies course and this was an amazing video to really introduce life before stonewall and i love the fact that it was posted to show us real videos of the people who actually went through this and their points of view!
I love seeing San Francisco just before I was born....my parents lived there for a couple years before moving to the suburbs......I lived there in the late 80s and went to my first gay pride parade.....
heard about on radio this morning. had to look up and watch. very interesting. liked the fact ms Amanda was a clerk typist and then a secretary..you dont hear of those jobs anymore. sign of the times.
One of the greats in documentaries. Susan Stryker is truly a legend!
Spent a lazy Saturday at work watching this Those days were the best
the trans joy in this documentary is so amazing to see. its really eye opening to see how far we've come even though sometimes it feels like we haven't!!
Very interesting and in depth. More succinct and educational than these long, boring Dustin Lance Black projects.
How can I find the black and white interview where these girls are talking about the employment situation?
i am proud of YOU, Susan Stryker!!
Wow. This was fascinating and inspiring. Thank you for making this film!
I'm gay but not into the whole gay activism thing. But I love history and this was an interesting documentary about a little remembered incident that lead up to Stonewall. So sad to see people were treated this way in none other than San Francisco. You may not agree with someone's lifestyle, but no one should have to go through what these individuals went through in 1966.
Just remember, you now have the choice to not be into the gay rights thing because brave people put their lives on the line. Remember them.
Happy pride month!!! 🖤🏳️⚧️
Love it. I lived in SF in 1970-72 as a kid. We lived on 23rd near Church and took the transit everywhere. Saw all kinds of people. My mom picked up some hitchhikers and told me they were transvestites. I remember the streets all torn up for BART and when the new cathedral was built and the shadow looks like a breast!
A good documentary. Thank you for posting
I am a trans woman thank you for fighting and paving the way for us
wonderful doc, was wondering if the serial killer in the tenderloin they're referring to was The Doodler or was there another around the same time? anyone know?
This was amazing! Thank you!
Wasn't there also a fight or something at a doughnut shop? Shipley's Do-Nuts?
incredible doccumentary. Does anyone know what other movies are shown in the doccumentary? I know that Queens At Heart is shown, but I don't recognize the black and white interview being shown throughout (such as at 19:00)
I would love to know this also and if I get a chance i might try to find out... hopefully I get a notification if someone else comments before then too
Thank u so much girls. For fighting for our rights back then. Yes I'm a transgender woman
Very enlightening and interesting YOU GO GURLS !!!
What's interesting but isn't mentioned here, but back in the '80s when I came out and knew other transsexuals a lot of them survived by getting on SSI (Supplemental Security Income) or if they worked enough and had paid into the system (usually during their male life and jobs) they would get SSDI disability benefits. I never knew any that were prostitutes, though. They either had jobs or they were getting benefits. I had low-paying jobs and when I was in my late 50s I applied for and got SSI/SSDI. These services may not have been possible back in the 1960's.
Question is this documentary available on dvd?
It's been so many years but finally I have watched this with hope in my heart that people will be able to live, dress and BE as their true selves, as if clothes make the gender.. THEY DON'T. Every one of you ladies are brave and amazing and a shit ton better at makeup than this cisgirl. ;) It's a privilege to see how far you all have come and an honor to fight alongside if you ever need it.
awwwwwwwwwwww man I just found this film today, tried looking up Aleisha Brevard on facebook only to realize she died 2 months ago
Is there anywhere I can see the full interview of the black and white clips?
The cops got it there and in NYC. No more pushing us around!
Love this amazing history. Thank you. Bless Elliot Blackstone
I love this documentary,it's so interesting.
just an incredibly fantastic documentary
police estimated 90,000 gay ppl in San Francisco in 1966. that's not an insignificant population that were being criminalized
I noticed headlines about gays were often dismissive , deriscive and rude . QUEEN BEE , SCREAMING QUEEN ETC...
Only at night they come out n show ther tru colors.lol that news anonser cracks me up.how far have America has come since then.
The mistreatment these people went through pisses me off.
Second and National back in Milwaukee was the same sort of neighborhood when I lived there. The ghettoization of gay neighborhoods in the states unfortunately still continues. You'd think after 57 years (well more, to be fair) that there might be some progress made.
The Reverend seems to have an undermining hierarchal tone in this narrative. Not sure, but seemingly.
fantastic thank you so much
3 years before Stonewall but little known..
It was so little known that all gay/lesbian pride parades for decades after didn't even have transgender in their names. No one cared.
Politicians, teachers, family members, cops & religious folks were committing crimes & harming minors- but didn't need women's clothes to do it.
Preserve our history!
Trans rights now!
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
"Illegal...speakeasy." Isn't that a redundancy?
Thank you
Is Felicia Elizondo still alive? She hasn't posted anything on Facebook in several years. I remember seeing her on the Phil Donahue show years ago when she appeared with her sister about transsexuals and their families. She didn't mention anything about this part of her life, though. Only that she was living and working as a female and few people knew she was transsexual.
Sadly Ms.Elizondo passed away nearly a year ago. Of the 5 ladies interviewed, only Ms. Chung is still alive.😇😢
* Tom Snyder, Dina Shore, Mike Douglas had Trans guests years before. Then came Phil Donahue, Sally Jesse Raphael, Jane Whitney, Geraldo Rivera during the 1980s.
**
This is an important archive for LGBTQ history
What a difference between than and now. Than a person risked their life to be what they needed to be. You see this in religion. Christians risked death to practice their beliefs. The risk of ones life to live truly brings an honesty to the behavior. There is no room for ego, narcissism, entitlement or hidden agendas. Every movement becomes corrupted by it's success. Feminism is an excellent example. It morphed into hate and attacks on men. It has become intolerant of others.
18:12 She was so gorgeous
I don't get this ex-cop, at all... He seems way shady and crusty.
How about that ? Amanda St Jaymes became the wind ....
Wow literally history
Awesome and necessary.
This WAS BEFORE STONEWALL, but STONEWALL made the headlines !
48:27 is that an ftm?
Yes
I love the LGBTQIA PLUS COMMUNITY!!!! Excellent job 👌👌👌!!!! In 1994???? My elder half brother???? Made a disgusting homophobic remark!!!! About homosexual men!!!! I was fuckin horrified and told my mother I didn't want to eat my food in the living room with him and that I was going into the kitchen !!! I was 12 at the time!!!
Meanwhile, the butch queens were living in the comfort of their privilege- & did NOTHING when the dolls were harassed & attacked by cops who were trans attracted.
The Dolls paved the way.🕊
💜💜💜
The true base for the gay movement
19:43 says it all for me.
I agree, In my case it was my family that 'outed' me a few times when I was in jobs. I'm sooo grateful to be retired now and no longer have to work and deal with that sh!t.
@@littlecasino60 I wish families wouldn't do that. Do you still fear being outed in the neighbourhood/community?
Good but very very slow serious and heavy.
It was serious and heavy. People were (and still are) fighting for their rights and the riot didn't simply happen overnight, the tension between the police and drag queens and trans people built up as it became worse. People were in danger and threatened because of how they identified. It would be impossible to make a documentary on the movement without addressing the serious reality of it.
Pygiana wow really? That was the most entertaining format i could fathom to present a topic that serious & heavy don’t come close to these horrors that still occur. I smiled.
What do you mean that story has never been told-- Gay men habve passed it along for years. It was part of the oral history lesson even for us back east So your welcome because I am sure that for most tran persons this would have been new information.
I want to like the video but there are 666 likes and that's too precious to disturb.
SICKNESS
Like you
why were transgender issues neglected in the 1960s and 1970s gay rights movement?
I don’t think it was really. I think they believe trans folks wanted to go stealth to be honest n not be politicized.
Also I heard they made a deal with conservatives at that time. I have to think where I saw/ read that at
Lot of gays and lesbians hated trans girls,they blamed homophobia on trans ppl. Plus lot of gay men thought trans women were gay men afraid to be gay, lesbians hated trans women were men in dresses ( some things never change ...)
That conflict is still there,has been all along. The height of irony was at stonewall 25 where heritage of pride, the group that runs pride, banned trans groups from marching under their own identity/ group name. The people running it said it was to show how gays and lesbians were normal people who wanted the American dream of the corporate job and the white picket fence. Pretty pathetic. Among other things the hop people pretended like stonewall was gay men and lesbians in three piece suits protesting for their rights.
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"clubs are trump" 2020 #DefundPolice
3:51 This lady, Amanda, has got it all very wrong. Jehova's witnesses don't drag crosses, they do not use the cross or believe in the Christian cross which they say was a pole. Nor have they said these people would burn in hell because they do not believe hell exists.
The freaks come out at night.😂