The June 1969 Stonewall rebellion — six nights of the raided fighting back, street queens and homeless youth in front — turned the routine of arrest into the birth of a liberation movement. Its veterans Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, arrested more times than either could count ("I got my civil rights in a paddy wagon," Rivera said), founded STAR — Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries — housing the kids the movement and the city both abandoned, and carried the Young Lords' and Panthers' politics into gay liberation.

The Gay Liberation Front named itself for the NLF and marched for Panther prisoners; Huey Newton's 1970 letter welcomed the alliance. The generation's arrests — GAA zaps, the Rockefeller Five, Rivera dragged from the 1973 rally stage — established the movement's claim staked in this database: that the criminalization of queer and trans existence was political imprisonment by another name.