Sylvia Rivera

Sylvia Rivera () adalah seorang aktivis hak transgender dan pembebasan gay Amerika Serikat September 21, 1995. Accessed July 24, 2015. yang juga menjadi tenaga kerja komunitas terkenal di New York. Rivera, yang mengidentifikasikan dirinya sebagai ratu drag,Rivera, Sylvia, "Queens In Exile, The Forgotten Ones" in Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries: Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle. Untorelli Press, 2013.Leslie Feinberg (September 24, 2006). Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. Workers World Party. "Stonewall combatants Sylvia Rivera and Marsha "Pay It No Mind" Johnson... Both were self-identified drag queens." September 21, 1995. Accessed July 24, 2015. ikut serta dalam demonstrasi-demonstrasi dengan Front Pembebasan Gay.Photographs by Diana Davies, in the Gay Liberation Front series: Rivera wears an "E" t-shirt in a line of activists to spell out "Gay Power".

Bersama teman dekatnya Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera membentuk Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), sebuah kelompok yang didedikasikan untuk membantu ratu day muda tuna wisma, pemuda gay dan trans wanita.Marsha P. Johnson died in 1992. In 2001, Rivera "resurrected" the group, renaming it "Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries." SoundPortraits (July 4, 2001). Update on Remembering Stonewall. 

Referensi

Pranala luar
 September 21, 1995. 
 – Sylvia Rivera speaks at Gay Liberation Rally, New York City, 1973
 MCCNY Charities – the Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry and Homeless Youth Services
 Stonewall Veterans Association
 Sylvia Rivera Law Project
 Photographs of Sylvia Rivera by Diana Davies at the New York Public Library Digital Collections. In the Gay Liberation Front series Rivera wears an "E" t-shirt in a line of activists to spell out "Gay Power"

Kategori:Aktivis hak LGBT dari Amerika Serikat
Kategori:Tokoh LGBT dari Amerika Serikat
Kategori:Wanita transgender dan transseksual
Kategori:Tokoh dari Kota New York