and susan stryker tells us in august of 1966 at san francisco's compton cafeteria, when the management called the san francisco police to crack down on what they perceived to be raucously behaving transgender individuals in the cafeteria, that the transgender individuals fought back when police arrived to arrest them as well. and yet, even before those events, we had other street protests against discrimination against lesbians and gay men. we have talked before about the emergence of what historian david johnson has categorized as "the lavender scare," the purge of gay men and lesbians from the federal government's workforce in the 1950's and 1960's. in washington, a group of gay and lesbian activists, known as the madison society of washington, began to assemble to combat this discrimination and access to jobs in the federal workforce. they began also by 1965 to stage a series of pickets in washington, d.c. the first of these pickets happened in april of 1965, and was prompted somewhat unusually and unexpectedly by "the new york times" article that had announced the establishment of