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: Decades before widespread recognition, uprisings at Cooper Do-nuts (1959) and Compton’s Cafeteria (1966) saw trans individuals fighting police harassment.

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Transgender and gender non-conforming individuals, particularly women of color, were the "backbone" of the early movement: : Decades before widespread recognition, uprisings at Cooper