Here’s a link to an essay written by my friend Michael Woodward, who works at Wingspan and with the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance, back in June 2007:
The Stonewall Rebellion: Whose Riot Is It Anyway?Each year the LGBT community celebrates its pride in June to mark the anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, an event considered by most as the “shot heard ‘round the world” for the gay rights movement.
I wanted to take a moment to reflect on another side of Stonewall—one you likely have not heard as much about.
While the Stonewall Rebellion galvanized the quest for gay and lesbian equality, it also sparked what has become one of the longest-running controversies in the movement: the rift between the gay and lesbian community and the transgender population.
Read the whole thing, as they say on the Intarwebs.
UPDATE: More History Goodness:
Monica explains why the transgender community hates HRC.
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