: Historical records as far back as 1200 BCE include accounts of non-binary and third-gender individuals. The Fight for Visibility (19th - Early 20th Century)
Three years before the famous events in New York, transgender women and drag queens in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district stood up against systemic police harassment. The riot at Gene Compton’s Cafeteria marked one of the first recorded instances of collective, physical resistance to the oppression of queer people in United States history. It directly led to the creation of a network of trans-led social, psychological, and medical support services. The Stonewall Inn (1969) hung shemales pictures new