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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So, I was walking by a bus stop where a few I dunno between 14 and 17 year old kids were waiting and an ambulance with sirens pulls up and pulls an older lady out of her car. I see one pull out a phone and while I couldn't make it out, said something to another kid who went into a stance like he was about to run towards this medical emergency and then thankfully chickened out. Whatever they were planning to film with a medical emergency as their opportunity couldn't be good and I was ready to tackle that kid if he made the slightest move towards the EMTs.
Edit: this is such a chud dad story, I know. But it put me in a bad mood to see someone pulling out their phone as a response to an ambulance and I was a shithead kid trained on jackass, I can see what it looks like when someone with a camera is daring another kid to do something terrible. Been on both sides of the lense there, I could even sorta hear the kid being dared making excuses like he would do it but etc...I don't wanna seem like I'm saying I'm the would be hero cause I was ready to knock down a child to help EMTs here