While the 1960s saw mass movements for black power, women’s liberation and gay pride, today we have Black Lives Matter, a resurgent feminism and, in May 2014, Time magazine declaring a “transgender tipping point”, representing the “next civil rights frontier”. (The frontier is a bloody one. Following the murders of two black trans women in Dallas earlier this month, the same magazine described a “disturbing pattern” in the “epidemic of violence against the transgender community”, which “disproportionately affects trans women of color”.) Unsurprisingly, a new generation of historians is now telling the story of Stonewall differently.