• Sylvia Rivera (July 2, 1951 – February 19, 2002) was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who was also a noted community worker...
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  • Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), alongside close friend Sylvia Rivera. Popular in New York's gay community, Johnson was also active in the...
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  • would back Rivera's claims to Carter for the book, Rivera asked Kohler to say that Rivera threw a Molotov cocktail. Kohler responded, "Sylvia, you didn't...
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  • 1973 LGBT Pride March in New York City. As they passed out flyers, Sylvia Rivera, of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, took the microphone...
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  • The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) is a legal aid organization based in New York City at the Miss Major-Jay Toole Building for Social Justice that serves...
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  • non-conforming, and transvestite street activist organization founded in 1970 by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, subculturally-famous New York City drag queens...
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  • spokesmodel Sylvia Rivera (1951–2002), American transgender activist Sylvia Robinson (1935–2011), American rhythm & blues singer, member of Mickey & Sylvia, and...
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  • Sylvia Rivera in the hours that led up to the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. The film stars Mya Taylor as Johnson and Eve Lindley as Rivera....
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    to "Sylvia Rivera Cooperative House". It was renamed again to the Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera Cooperative House. The theme of Johnson-Rivera is...
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    person with a non-binary gender expression. In 2002, he founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective in New York City that provides...
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  • Jordan; and television personality Ross Mathews. Actress Juliana Joel as Sylvia Rivera LGBTQ portal Television portal Brathwaite, Lester Fabian (February 3...
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  • film directed by David France. It chronicles Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, prominent figures in gay liberation and transgender rights movement...
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  • Sophie Rivera (1938–2021), Puerto Rican-American artist and photographer Susana Rivera-Mills, Salvadoran sociolinguist and academic administrator Sylvia Rivera...
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  • all proceeds were donated to the trans and sex worker charities the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the Sex Workers Outreach Project and Rainbow Railroad....
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    opened University Center was named the Baldwin Rivera Boggs Center after activists Baldwin, Sylvia Rivera, and Grace Lee Boggs. In 2016, Raoul Peck released...
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    working with LGBT people, tweeting different non-profits including Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, and Callen-Lorde...
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  • trans-exclusionary radical feminists tried to stop Sylvia Rivera from speaking. Jean O'Leary publicly denounced Sylvia Rivera as "parodying womanhood" and Lesbian Feminist...
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  • Worm Tiffany 2018 A Kid Like Jake Waiter # 1 Happy Birthday, Marsha! Sylvia Rivera Short film 2019 Extra Toppings Taylor Welcome Back, Lenny Lenny Otherhood...
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    Monica, are less than [others] in this country." Later that year the Sylvia Rivera Law Project released a video in which Cox read a letter from transgender...
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    transgender activism and economic justice, through her work with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Critical Resistance and Queers for Economic Justice. She...
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    the drag queen caucus of the GLF, including Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, formed the group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR)...
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  • violence counselor. A contemporary of activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, she is featured in the 2017 documentary The Death and Life of Marsha...
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    Slayyyter committed funds resulting from her CD and vinyl sales to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and Black Trans Travel Fund—two charities benefitting black...
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    – Phoenix Chapter] now!" In November 2012, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project gave Mock their Sylvia Rivera Activist Award. Mock was included in the Trans...
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  • Marriage Sex Panic! Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (defunct) Sylvia Rivera Law Project Equality North Carolina North Carolina Religious Coalition...
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    from Northeastern in 2010, Strangio received a fellowship from the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) to continue developing his legal skills. After law...
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    Advocate Harvey Fierstein Marsha P. Johnson Billie Jean King Subhi Nahas Sylvia Rivera 2017 Alvin Ailey Jason Collins Cleve Jones David Kohan Cyndi Lauper...
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    close friend, Sylvia Rivera. Rivera's early definitions around trans were very broad, including all gender-nonconforming people. Rivera continued to be...
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    Trouble Jazmin Recurring Role; 10 episodes 2019 Eastsiders Marta 4 episodes 2020 Equal Sylvia Rivera Episode: "Stonewall: From Rebellion to Liberation"...
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    Advocate Harvey Fierstein Marsha P. Johnson Billie Jean King Subhi Nahas Sylvia Rivera 2017 Alvin Ailey Jason Collins Cleve Jones David Kohan Cyndi Lauper...
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