Y’all better quiet down!

Sylvia Rivera was a gay trans woman, veteran of the Stonewall Riots that kickstarted the gay liberation movement in the US in 1969. Here she’s addressing a gay and lesbian crowd at the 1973 Christopher Street Rally, only four years later, a crowd that doesn’t want her to speak at first, tensions between trans and cisgendered gay people already high as a more assimilatist gay movement tries to rid itself from its more “embarassing” elements.