: In 1970, Johnson and Rivera co-founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) to provide housing and support for queer homeless youth and sex workers. Societal and Economic Realities
Navigating Identity and Activism: The Transgender Community within Evolving LGBTQ+ Culture
Countries like Argentina, Malta, and Spain have pioneered "self-determination" laws, allowing citizens to change their legal gender marker without requiring psychiatric evaluations or medical interventions.
The modern LGBTQ rights movement was not born in a vacuum; it was sparked in large part by transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals of color who stood at the intersection of multiple forms of oppression.