Oh Really?

One of the things that “gets my goat” is when people use the term “LGBT” and really only mean “LG”

The Most Important LGBT History Column You'll Read
Bilerico
Filed By Mark Segal
May 02, 2015 1

There is a national spotlight on the 50th anniversary of the first LGBT demonstrations in front of Independence Hall. It took place every July 4th from 1965-69. While it was a pivotal change in the struggle for equality, some are revising our history out of context by stating it is the 50th anniversary of the LGBT movement. That simply is not true.
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In a chat with William Kelly, who was one of those marchers outside Independence Hall, he reminds people of the earlier struggle. He says: "Frank Kameny and associates formed the Mattachine Society of Washington, an independent organization, in 1961. Harry Hay and others formed the original Mattachine group even earlier, in 1950. ONE, Inc., got its start in the 1950s and successfully took a case to the Supreme Court while producing a pioneer newsstand-distributed periodical, ONE. Daughters of Bilitis was formed in 1955. San Francisco's SIR was quite active already in 1965 when I first got involved in the movement. Lisa Ben was putting out Vice Versa in carbon-copy form in the late 1940s. And, of course, granddaddy of them all though extremely short-lived, Chicago's Society for Human Rights was around in 1924. Also, there were street protests in Los Angeles and San Francisco prior to 1965, and in 1964, Randy Wicker organized a picket of the Whitehall Street military induction."

Okay, first of all he doesn’t mention anything about the trans organizations that were forming during those years. Second we were not invited to most of these events and many gays and lesbians were also not invited because they didn’t conform to the “gender norms” of the day.

To me, this article seems too be written by and for "Gay Inc." to pat themselves on their back.

It you want to read some good books on trans history, I recommend,

Transgender Nation

By Gordene MacKenzie

Paperback - 190 pages (April 1994), Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press; ISBN-10: 0879725974

How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States

By  Joanne Meyerowitz

Paperback - 400 pages (April 1, 2004), Harvard University Press; ISBN-100674013794

Transgender History

By Susan Stryker

Paperback - 208 pages (May 6, 2008), Seal Press; illustrated edition; ISBN-10: 158005224X