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: Figures like Miss Major Griffin-Gracy have spent decades advocating for transgender people in the prison system, while Phyllis Frye became the nation’s first openly transgender judge. Symbols and Cultural Expression young shemales photos
: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were leading figures in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), the first shelter for queer homeless youth in the U.S.. : Decades before widespread recognition, uprisings at Cooper