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Rivera was born and raised in New York City and lived most of her life in or near the city; she was born to a Puerto Rican father and a Venezuelan mother. [15] She was abandoned by her birth father José Rivera early in life, and became an orphan after her mother died by suicide when Rivera was three years old. [11]
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) was a gay, gender non-conforming, and transvestite street activist organization founded in 1970 by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, [1] subculturally-famous New York City drag queens of color.
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is a 2017 American documentary film directed by David France.It chronicles Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, prominent figures in gay liberation and transgender rights movement in New York City from the 1960s to the 1990s and co-founders of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries.
Beside names such as Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and RuPaul is fellow LGBTQ+ icon and activist Harvey Milk. As the first openly gay politician in the United States, Milk was influential in ...
Sylvia Rivera [403] Brandan Robertson [404] Geena Rocero [405] Craig Rodwell [406] Abby Rubenfeld [407] Vito Russo [408] Bayard Rustin (1912–1987), openly gay civil rights activist, principal organizer and co-leader of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and advisor to Martin Luther King Jr.; gay rights activist in later life [409]
Tourmaline has worked at various organizations dealing with transgender activism, economic justice, and prison abolition. She served as the Membership Coordinator for Queers for Economic Justice. At the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, she served as the Director of Membership. [9] She has been a featured speaker about transgender issues at GLAAD. [10]
Petitions for a statue of Johnson in the West Village have existed as early as the 1980s. [7] Transgender activists planned the sculpture following unrealized plans for an official sculpture of Johnson and Sylvia Rivera in 2019.
Rusty Mae Moore (October 25, 1941 – February 23, 2022) was an American transgender rights activist and educator. [1] [2] [3] She ran a de facto homeless shelter for transgender people in the 1990s and 2000s, known as the Transy House. [1]