Happy Pride! And now here's some history!

[Saviolo]

6. It was a riot, so it wasn't started by one person, clearly

But at the epicenter were people like Marsha P Johnson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_P._Johnson

widely recognized to be one of the pivotal figures in New York queer culture at that time, and present at the very beginning of the Stonewall riots.

Sylvia Rivera's involvement is less clear:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera

But another pivotal figure in the early queer rights movement emerging from New York in the wake of Stonewall.

A hugely significant portion of the people at event that became the Stonewall riots were queer POC, with many drag queens and (what would now be referred to as) trans women. Along with many lesbians and queer men fighting together against police incursions into queer space, it was an intersectional birthplace of the gay civil rights movement.