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This erasure is the first clue to understanding the complex relationship. Early gay liberation organizations, such as the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), frequently sidelined trans issues. In the 1970s, Rivera was famously booed off stage while speaking at a GAA event, where she pleaded for the organization to support trans and gender-nonconforming people imprisoned at the Rikers Island jail complex. The response? "We need to be taken seriously. We have an image problem." One evening, she and Kai closed the bar together