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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Can anyone give me a recommendation for an area to visit in Prince Edward Island (Canada) for an overnight trip in July? I'll be in my ancestral Maritimes homeland then, and was thinking of doing an overnight trip to PEI while I'm in the area. I'm okay with a "touristy" recommendation so long as there's some natural beauty to see without committing to a long hike.
It's not hard to find some neat nature there, it takes about an hour to drive across the diameter of the island as well. Anywhere on the coast is pretty nice. I haven't been there in a long time for anything other than playing a show, but it's a generally pretty place and it's not hard to find neat nature spots, it's either potato field, Charlottown or nature
Ooh, should add, they at least used to have a fantastic drunk tank. A friend who lives there invited me and a friend there specifically so the 3 of us could spend a night in the drunk tank and get waffles and coffee in the morning.