Local activists among 40 ’transgender heroes’ honored at Stonewall bar

[Shana A]

Local activists among 40 'transgender heroes' honored at Stonewall bar
by Ethan Jacobs
staff reporter
Thursday Jun 25, 2009

http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=92846

Historians have long credited poor and working class drag queens, bull dykes and other transgender and gender-non-conforming people as key participants in the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, but within the wider LGBT community that defining moment is all-too-often remembered as a gay, rather than LGBT, milestone. The International Court System and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force hope to change that. On June 25, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the riots that marked the birth of the modern LGBT rights movement, the two organizations will hold a dedication ceremony at the fabled New York City bar to unveil a plaque featuring the names of 40 transgender heroes past and present.