After Stonewall, Rivera and Johnson founded , one of the first organizations in the US dedicated to sheltering homeless trans youth. Yet, by the 1970s, they were increasingly excluded from the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), which sought to drop "drag queens" and trans people from the movement to appear more "respectable." Rivera famously crashed a GAA meeting shouting, "You all tell me, 'Go to the back of the bus.' Well, I’ve been to the back of the bus. It hurts."
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Johnson, a Black trans woman, and Rivera, a Latina trans woman, were at the vanguard of the resistance against police brutality at the Stonewall Inn. At the time, the "gay liberation" movement was largely dominated by white, middle-class gay men and lesbians who sought assimilation—dressing conservatively, hiding "unseemly" queers, and pleading for tolerance. In contrast, trans women, drag queens, and gender-nonconforming street people had nothing to lose. They fought back. After Stonewall, Rivera and Johnson founded , one