Sylvia Rivera

Sylvia Rivera (2 Julai 1951 - 19 Februari 2002) ialah seorang aktivis hak transgender dan pembebasan gay Amerika Syarikat September 21, 1995. Accessed July 24, 2015. yang juga menjadi tenaga kerja komuniti terkenal dalam New York. Rivera, yang mengenal pasti 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. turut serta dalam demonstrasi dengan Barisan 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 rakannya Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera menubuhka Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), sebuah kumpulan yang didedikasikan untuk membantu ratu drag, gelandangan, 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. 

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Pautan 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".

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