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Yet, in the years following Stonewall, the very movement they helped ignite began to push them aside. The nascent Gay Liberation Front wanted respectability. They wanted suits, dignity, and the right to serve in the military. They saw the flamboyant, the gender-bending, and the openly trans as "bad optics." In 1973, at the Christopher Street Liberation Day rally, Sylvia Rivera was booed off the stage. The message was clear: Your fight is too messy. We got ours. The most public friction has historically been between