Sylvia Rivera, born on July 2 in 1951, was a Latina American queer rights activist, member of the Gay Liberation Front, and community worker from the state of New York.
Rivera, who identified as a "half-sister", participated in demonstrations with the Gay Liberation Front. With her close friend Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a socialist group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women.
At different times in her life, Rivera battled substance abuse and lived on the streets, largely in the gay homeless community at the Christopher Street docks. Her experiences made her more focused on advocacy for those who, in her view, mainstream society and the assimilationist factions of the LGBT community were leaving behind.
Rivera died during the dawn hours of February 19th, 2002, at St. Vincent's Hospital, of complications from liver cancer. Activist Riki Wilchins said this of her: "In many ways, Sylvia was the Rosa Parks of the modern transgender movement, a term that was not even coined until two decades after Stonewall".
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Remember the radicalism of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson
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“Our armies are rising:” Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson
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Toronto Pride got interrupted by protestors for Palestine. Which is great, the rest was cancelled, No Pride in Genocide is the correct stance to take because all of these struggles - the struggle for gay lives, the struggle for trans lives, the struggle for Palestinian lives, etc - are all rooted in the same oppression.
But you wouldn't guess that on good ol "progressive" /r/onguardforthee! Same tired liberal zionist trash about how those evil gazans would have our heads on pikes, or how Pride parades shouldn't be interrupted by leftist causes because of optics, etc.
Except, fuck your corporate Pride and fuck the corporations who wanna rainbow wash their crimes. They should feel lucky we aren't throwing bricks anymore, fuck you for thinking you can tell US how to celebrate Pride month or how I should feel about Palestinians. Suck my removed cock 🖕
It was created against r/metacanada I thought, but they're Liberal party liberals so they still suck ass.
The worst thing about that sub is that most of the regular users there actually think they're left-leaning.