Johnson, a fellow transgender activist, have died, other leaders have followed in their footsteps. And while many of the movement’s trailblazers, like Ms.
It has been 50 years since the clashes at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village ignited the modern gay rights movement.
In a 1998 interview, Sylvia Rivera, a prominent transgender activist, recalled being at the 1969 Stonewall uprising and thinking, as Molotov cocktails flew through the air, “My God, the revolution is here.
