>"At no point have black trans people shared fully in the gains of the L.G.B.T.Q. or racial justice movements. This may be changing."

Transgender women of color were leaders in L.G.B.T.Q. activism before, during and after the uprising at the Stonewall Inn 51 years ago on Sunday, but they were never put at the center of the movement they helped start: one whose very shorthand, “the gay rights movement,” erases them.

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