Transgender women of color like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson played a critical role in the Stonewall uprising. And today, San Francisco's Trans March still strongly reflects its radical roots, says activist Cecilia Chung. (KQEDarts)
played an essential role in the Stonewall uprising of 1969—a riot against police brutality in New York City that sparked the modern-day gay rights movement—by the early 1970s, when Pride first came together, there was no particular space for people who wanted to celebrate transgender identity. In fact, the gay, lesbian and bisexual community often discriminated against trans people.
Furthermore, the gay rights movement found success with a conformist message geared towards assimilation into straight norms. Some gay and lesbian organizers feared that the inclusion of trans people would undermine the movement's gains.
According to Styker, the transphobic event was the more successful one, setting the tone for decades to come:"Broshears never organized another Gay Pride event, while the anti-drag event became the forerunner of the current San Francisco LGBTQ+ Pride celebration." Transgender activist Cecilia Chung says that by 2004 things were quite different, and the San Francisco Pride organization was very willing to support a march devoted to trans empowerment.
Chung says that the first Trans March was undertaken for a number of reasons, a major one being to demand justice for. Araujo was a trans woman who was brutally beaten to death in 2002 by four men who discovered she was transgender after flirting with her, and, in the case of two, having sexual relations. The trial began shortly before the first Trans March in April 2004, with Gloria Allred representing Araujo's family. A mistrial had just been declared.
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