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Sylvia Rivera with STAR banner. Rivera's activism began in 1968 after she participated in actions with the Gay Liberation Front's Drag Queen Caucus and later joined the Gay Activists Alliance at 18 years old, where she fought for not only the rights of gay people but also for the inclusion of drag queens like herself in the movement. [19]
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.
Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992) was an American gay liberation [6] [7] activist and self-identified drag queen. [8] [9] Known as an outspoken advocate for gay rights, Johnson was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969.
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]
Happy Birthday, Marsha! is a 2017 fictional short film that imagines the gay and transgender rights pioneers Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera in the hours that led up to the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. [2] The film stars Mya Taylor as Johnson and Eve Lindley as Rivera. [3] It was written, directed, and produced by Tourmaline and ...
If your child seems comfortable being naked around you and vice versa, Mayer says there's no reason to stop. "Given these parameters, there are no harmful effects," he says. "But if your child ...
Transgender activists planned the sculpture following unrealized plans for an official sculpture of Johnson and Sylvia Rivera in 2019. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] It is the city's first statue of a transgender person and the eighth statue of a woman among New York City's 800 park monuments.