The Stonewall Inn uprising of June 28, 1969, is legendary. While history remembers Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, it often erases their identities. Johnson was a self-identified drag queen and trans activist; Rivera was a transgender woman and founding member of the Gay Liberation Front. They were not "gay men in dresses." They were trans individuals fighting police brutality that specifically targeted gender non-conforming people.

The work is to acknowledge that while the acronym may be imperfect, the coalition provides safety in numbers. Abandoning the LGB to go it alone would be strategic suicide in the face of rising fascism.

The work is to listen, not center their own comfort, and to recognize that defending trans rights is not a distraction from gay rights—it is the same fight against normative violence.