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Three years before Stonewall, trans women and drag queens fought back against police harassment at a 24-hour diner in the Tenderloin district. This event marked the first known instance of queer resistance involving street fighting and a thrown cup of coffee that sparked a full-blown riot. The transgender community, particularly trans women of color, were the tip of the spear in an era when "homosexuality" was classified as a mental illness and "cross-dressing" was a crime.

Within LGBTQ+ culture, this distinction is vital. A transgender person can be gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. By including the transgender community, the LGBTQ+ movement acknowledges that liberation requires dismantling both "heteronormativity" (the assumption that everyone is straight) and "cisnormativity" (the assumption that everyone identifies with the sex they were assigned at birth). Cultural Contributions and Language blackshemalepics