Johnson, a self-identified drag queen and trans activist, and Rivera, a fiercely passionate transgender woman, were on the front lines of the uprising. In the years following Stonewall, as the Gay Liberation Front began to professionalize and pivot toward respectability politics, Rivera and Johnson were often sidelined. Mainstream gay activists wanted to present a palatable image to straight society: clean-cut, white, cisgender (non-transgender) gays and lesbians. They viewed the "street queens," the homeless trans youth, and the drag performers as liabilities.
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Or, will the community finally internalize the lesson of the street queens? That safety cannot be purchased by sacrificing the most vulnerable. That liberation is a tide that lifts all boats, or it lifts none at all. Johnson, a self-identified drag queen and trans activist,