Lindsay Graham
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first heard Sep 2026
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Lindsay Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And although entrapment practices are still used by police today, the conduct is broadly discouraged and, in many cases, can be used by a defendant as legal grounds for dismissal of their case.
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But while Leisch and others were trying to advance their cause through local politics, transgender communities were developing their own tactics, informing their own strategies to respond to police harassment and violence.
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Though informal and less specifically organized, these tactics and strategies
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would form the first steps toward active physical resistance.
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Even more so than today, transgender people in the 1960s faced discrimination based on their gender identity.
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Those who were also gay faced discrimination related to their sexual orientation.
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They had to navigate incredibly difficult, sometimes life or death decisions daily about how much of their authentic selves they could share with the world.
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transgender people struggle with issues that persist today.
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Many trans people face an employment discrimination, making it difficult to find or hold a job.
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For trans people of color, these challenges were often compounded by racial discrimination and violence.
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And even today, transgender people of color, especially black transgender women, suffer disproportionately high rates of violence and murder.
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And in the sixties, like now, many transgender youth found themselves rejected or thrown out by their religiously or socially conservative families.
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With nowhere else to turn, some young transgender people were forced to become homeless.
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Others gravitated to major cities like New York or San Francisco to try and carve out new lives for themselves where at least they had the chance to find a more accepting community.
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One of these was Silvia Rivera, born in the Bronx in nineteen fifty one to a Puerto Rican father and a Venezuelan mother.
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She was orphaned at an early age after her father abandoned the family and her mother killed herself.
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Rivera's grandmother took her in, but by the time Rivera was ten years old, the two barely got along.
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She and her grandmother would get into explosive fights about Rivera wearing mascara and eyeliner, and about the boys she was bringing around to the apartment.
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After her grandmother tried to have her put into foster care, Rivera moved out at age eleven.
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She made her way to Times Square, where she began doing sex work to survive.
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