Sylvia Rivera
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Sylvia Rivera
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Sylvia Rivera was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who was also a noted community worker in New York. Rivera, who identified as a drag queen for most of her life and later as a transgender person, participated in demonstrations with the Gay Liberation Front. With close friend Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women.
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American LGBT rights activist (1951–2002)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera
date created:
2005-12-01T23:35:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:52:53Z
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