On 1/6/21 11:12 AM, Roger Kulp wrote:
Something tells me the left might have been more receptive to
discussing trans rights fifty years ago ,than we are now.
From my review of "Stonewall With a T":
Directed by Samy Nemir Olivares, a gay Puerto Rican immigrant and media
activist, this film examines the rift between transgender people and the
gay movement in the years following the Stonewall riot. While you are
accustomed to seeing the case for LGBT rights today, for a number of
years the T was absent.
Despite being sympathetic to transgender rights, gay men in leadership
positions felt that legislators in both Albany and Washington would not
pass a bill that included gender identity. The irony, as the film points
out, is that it was transgender women who finally stood up and resisted
the cops back in 1969.
Stonewall was not a club patronized by closeted stockbrokers or lawyers.
Owned by the Mafia, it was popular with the poorest and most
marginalized people in the gay community. They were up-front about their
identity: butch lesbians, effeminate young men, drag queens, male
prostitutes, transgender people, and homeless youth.
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