Over the past couple decades, queer and trans scholarship has created, circulated, and revised stories about past movements from the 1960s to the 1990s. These earlier movements in the context of the United States, which were overlapping in complex ways, include gay liberation, lesbian feminism, women of color feminism, AIDS writing and activism, and early writing about transgender identity. This chapter offers less a conventional intellectual history than addresses the range of ideas within these movements and the ways they’ve served as inspirations and provocations to which later scholars repeatedly have returned.