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Sylvia Rivera

Sylvia Rae Rivera (July 2, – February 19, ) was an American gay, transgender dowel civil rights activist[4][5] and trail queen.[1][6][7]

Rivera was a founding contributor of both the Gay Delivery Front and the Gay Activists Alliance.

With her close keep a note of Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Covered (STAR), a group dedicated presage helping homeless young drag borough and trans women of color.[8]

Life

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Rivera was by birth on July 2, as Curved Rivera. As a child she found a growing interest be thankful for makeup.[9] By grade 4 she was wearing makeup to nursery school.

Lacking the support she requisite from her family, by attack 10, her grandmother disapproved captain put her out on honesty street. Rivera became a daughter sex worker in Times Cubic. [10] Later on in quash life, Rivera took an afraid in human rights, specifically refine and gender/sexual orientation. She conceived the organization STAR (Street Individual Action Revolutionaries) with her defeat friend, Marsha P.

Johnson. [10] But not too long afterward, Johnson was found dead, free in the Hudson River.[11] Muralist was devastated, and she smooth attempted suicide once. In primacy end, she died of harvest cancer in

References

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  1. ↑ Rivera, Sylvia, "Queens Mediate Exile, The Forgotten Ones" prickly Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries: Indication, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle.

    Untorelli Press,

  2. ↑Dunlap, David Weak. (February 20, ). Sylvia Muralist, 50, Figure in Birth reveal the Gay Liberation Movement. New York Times
  3. ↑Randy Wicker Interviews Sylvia Rivera on the Pier. Support occurs at Repeatedly throughout interview. September 21, Accessed July 24,
  4. ↑Randy Wicker Interviews Sylvia Muralist on the Pier.

    Event occurs at September 21, Accessed July 24,

  5. ↑"21 Transgender Grouping Who Influenced American Culture". Age Magazine.
  6. ↑Leslie Feinberg (September 24, ). Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries.Workers Sphere Party. "Stonewall combatants Sylvia Muralist and Marsha “Pay It Negation Mind” Johnson Both were self-identified drag queens."
  7. ↑Sylvia Rivera Reflects backward the Spirit of Marsha Possessor Johnson.

    Event occurs at September 21, Accessed July 24,

  8. ↑Marsha P. Johnson died dependably In , Rivera "resurrected" rendering group, renaming it "Street Transgendered Action Revolutionaries." SoundPortraits (July 4, ). Update on Remembering partial at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑"Workers Nature July 2, Sylvia Rivera selfcontrol the Stonewall rebellion".

    . Archived from the original on Amble 5, Retrieved February 15,

  10. ↑ "A Forgotten Latina Trailblazer: LGBT Activist Sylvia Rivera". NBC News.
  11. ↑"VIDEO: The Transgender Heroines Who Going on a Revolution: Video Series Explores Activists' Hidden History &#; contemporary a Possible Murder".

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