were there any other such upheavals prior to this one?
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people staged a small riot at the Cooper Do-nuts cafe in Los Angeles in 1959 in response to police harassment.
Stonewall riots
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people staged a small riot at the Cooper Do-nuts cafe in Los Angeles in 1959 in response to police harassment. 
who plays gandolf in lord of the rings Sir Ian Murray McKellen what was his debut movie? A Touch of Love can you name some of the most acclaimed stage productions he has acted in? A Scent of Flowers, Macbeth, Othello is he involved in queer activism? Yes -  LGBT rights. He is co-founder of Stonewall, an LGBT rights lobby group in the United Kingdom what is this group named after? Named after the Stonewall riots when did it happen? June 28, 1969 why? It was a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community in response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, New York City.
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Stonewall riots [SEP] Earlier resistance and riots
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people staged a small riot at the Cooper Do-nuts cafe in Los Angeles in 1959 in response to police harassment. In a larger 1966 event in San Francisco, drag queens, hustlers, and trans women were sitting in Compton's Cafeteria when the police arrived to arrest people appearing to be physically male who were dressed as women. A riot ensued, with the cafeteria patrons slinging cups, plates, and saucers, and breaking the plexiglass windows in the front of the restaurant, and returning several days later to smash the windows again after they were replaced. Professor Susan Stryker classifies the Compton's Cafeteria riot as an "act of anti-transgender discrimination, rather than an act of discrimination against sexual orientation" and connects the uprising to the issues of gender, race, and class that were being downplayed by homophile organizations.