Marsha Johnson threw the first brick. Nice anon tho
This is factually untrue, though.
@2:54 “The definitive turning point came when a lesbian had been inside the bar and was being roughed up by the police as they took her out of the bar into a patrol wagon. She also said to the onlookers, she said, ‘Why don’t you guys do something?’”
In this podcast from Making Gay History, you can listen to Marsha P. Johnson in her own words explain how she showed up at Stonewall after the rioting had already been incited by an employee of the bar, Storme Delarverie.
There are a lot of myths surrounding an event as legendary as the Stonewall Riots. Even Marsha had to correct the record that Sylvia Rivera wasn’t there the first night. But you don’t need to wield historical revisionism against gays and lesbians as if they owe trans people everything for rights secured by gay people.
The gay rights movement existed much earlier outside America, but also predated Stonewall by decades. Stonewall wasn’t as immediately successful in changing laws compared to the Black Cat Riots the year earlier in Los Angeles, so you only remember its commemoration by the gay activists who mobilized afterward along the East Coast.
Stonewall was a collective act, no one started it, no one did it alone. Liberal individualism is cancer
We Are What We Feel 