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Johnson, a self-identified drag queen and trans activist, and Rivera, a Puerto Rican transgender woman, did not just happen to be at Stonewall; they were the spark. In the 1970s, as the gay liberation movement began to mainstream, it frequently sidelined trans issues. The early Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) attempted to exclude drag queens and trans people, fearing they would make homosexuality look "deviant" to straight society. Rivera’s famous "Y'all Better Quiet Down" speech in 1973—where she was booed off stage—is a harrowing reminder that the transgender community has historically had to fight for space within the very movement they helped start. Johnson, a self-identified drag queen and trans activist,