one is marcia p johnson, a transgender woman and also a sex worker. marcia p johnson became very famous as an organizer and political radical, actually ran for office once. another individual is sophia -- sylvia rivera, also a transgender woman, who became not only famous for her political activities, but for organizing homeless youth in the area. sylvia rivera in later decades developed an organization called star, which helps homeless youth get access to certain kinds of services. get them back into school. try to get them rehome. and try to get them off the streets and out of sex work. steve: as you research the topic, are there oral histories, other people who were alive today who remember what happened? prof. potter: there certainly are. you can find them all over the place. esther newton, who just wrote a wonderful great -- a great book. there's a great book by martin, which is an oral history he did with five participants. one of whom was a guy named craig rotman who is now dead, but he started the first lesbian and gay bookstore in new york. th

i'm standing on the shoulders of people like marcia p johnson, andia rivera, miss major activists likera st. james activists iwerful did not mention who help make it better for trans people today. a proud black transgender woman. i know 45 hates women. as soon as i identified a woman is a step down in society and as soon as i identified as transgender i was targeted by the trump administration. honorablyo be in discharged veteran. i served my country. people who did not serve their country should not have the right to say who can go in our military. i'm angry about that. i am the cofounder of the new york transgender advocacy group. i'm appalled at the direction our country is going in. i faced discrimination many times in my life after coming out in the 1990's. once i was run off the college of staten island campus after protesting for a judge who was an out lesbian. she was running for attorney general of new york and after that i knew i wanted to live in a country that does not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, gender, or age. what we need right