Prior to the 1960s, police raids on gay bars were routine. However, the police were particularly vicious toward "gender non-conforming" individuals. In that era, a cisgender gay man wearing a suit risked a fine; a trans woman wearing a dress risked a beating, arrest, or institutionalization. At the in 1969, the most defiant resisters against the police were not the white, middle-class gay men who later became the face of the movement. They were transgender women of color, like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera , alongside butch lesbians and drag queens.
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