Transgender History: Stonewall and Its Fissures (1969-1995)
Filed by: Guest Blogger
March 11, 2008 11:35 AM

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/03/transgender_history_stonewall_and_its_fi.php

[EDITOR'S NOTE:] Frequent guest blogger Mercedes Allen has written a six part history of transgender people for the Project that is running weekly on Tuesdays. A listing of the other sections is at the bottom of the post.

(Author's note: in response to some comments, I wish to clarify something. Not everyone mentioned in the transgender history considered themselves to be transgender. Certainly, k.d. lang, below, did not. Persons such as George Sand and Jose Sarria are debated as well. And historically, it is unlikely that everyone who rode with "Rebecca and her Daughters," for example, were gay or trans -- but their act of gender defiance, which drew from earlier pagan tradition, reflects a mode of thought about gender at the time. Each of these events listed were significant moments in a history of the transgression of gender roles, even if the persons themselves were not trans. I do not mean to co-opt these people, but I do think that some of what they did or how they lived deserves mention in a history of transgender existence).