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BUILDING ANABOLITIONISTTRANS AND QUEERMOVEMENT WITHEVERYTHINGWE’VE GOTMorgan Bassichis, Alexander Lee, Dean SpadeAs we write this, queer and trans people across the United States and inmany parts of the world have just celebrated the fortieth anniversary ofthe Stonewall Rebellion. On that fateful night back in June 1969, sexualand gender outsiders rose up against ongoing brutal police violence in aninspiring act of defiance. These early freedom fighters knew all too wellthat the NYPD—“New York’s finest”—were the frontline threat to queerand trans survival. Stonewall was the culmination of years of domination,resentment, and upheaval in many marginalized communities coming toa new consciousness of the depth of violence committed by the governmentagainst poor people, people of color, women, and queer people bothwithin US borders and around the world. The Stonewall Rebellion, themass demonstrations against the war in Vietnam, and the campaign to15