On the wall of the center, there is a quilt square—hand-stitched, slightly crooked. It says, “In memory of Marsha, who threw the first brick.” Next to it, a newer square: “For Alex, who just came out at 67.” The old guard and the new. The rioters and the retirees. We are not a monolith. We are a chorus of off-key voices that somehow, together, sound like a song.
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: Trans activists were instrumental in early LGBTQ civil rights, such as the 1959 Cooper Do-nuts riot, where trans women and drag queens fought back against police harassment. We are not a monolith