Christopher Street in the year 1969, tensions were boiling as police continue to ramp up raids on gay bars and arrests of transgender women and drag queens. The film follows Craig Rodwell, a radical and anti-authoritarian organizer; Marsha P. Johnson, the vivacious and protective "queen mother" of Christopher Street; and Sylvia Rivera, the passionate revolutionary teenager; and Evelyn, a closeted transgender woman caught in the middle of respectability and revolution.