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In 1966, one of the first transgender-led rebellions occurred in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot served as the prelude to the founding of the modern queer movement. Three years later, on June 28, 1969, there was another rebellion at New York City’s Stonewall Inn. …
The modern movement for queer liberation or gay liberation to use the as-yet less inclusive terminology of the 1960s and ’70s wouldn’t exist without the Communist Party USA.