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Elements of ballroom—like vogueing, "slang" (e.g., slay, tea, fierce ), and drag aesthetics—have been absorbed into global pop culture, popularized by shows like Pose and RuPaul’s Drag Race .

: Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, trans women and drag queens led early uprisings against police harassment, such as the 1959 Cooper Do-nuts Riot in Los Angeles and the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco. Stonewall and Beyond : Transgender women of color, notably Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera alexa brazil shemale