: A dedicated app for transgender individuals and those interested in meeting them, featuring distance filters and group chats.
: This community includes non-binary, genderqueer, and gender-fluid individuals. It is estimated that over 2 million transgender and non-binary people live in the U.S. today. Language Matters
A pivotal moment. When police raided the Stonewall Inn (a gay bar in NYC), it was —like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera —who fought back violently against police brutality. Their leadership sparked the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. Pride Month (June) commemorates this.
The modern LGBTQ+ rights movement didn’t start in boardrooms; it started in the streets, led largely by transgender women of color. Figures like and Sylvia Rivera were at the forefront of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. At the time, the distinction between "gay" and "transgender" was less rigid in the public eye—everyone who defied traditional gender and sexual norms was grouped together.
During the AIDS crisis, when the government ignored gay men dying in droves, trans women of color were among the activists and caregivers (like the affinity group of ACT UP) who demanded action. They understood that the state’s violence against gay men was the same state violence that policed their bodies for using the "wrong" bathroom.