Melissa Sklarz on learning about "transvestites"

Melissa Sklarz discusses how she first heard about “transvestites” and the laws regarding gendered clothing. Sklarz is a senior government relations strategist with SAGE (an LGBTQ elder advocacy group) and is a former president of Stonewall Democrats of New York City. Video from the National Park Service's Stonewall Oral History Project, in partnership with the LGBT Community Center and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Photograph from Bettmann/Getty Images.