Museum of Resistance and Resilience

Sylvia Rivera

The right woman is Sylvia Rivera. She was a Latin-American drag queen and alongside Marsha P. Johnson, they were the leading heroes in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. She established the political organization STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) alongside Marsha. Sylvia and Marsha “were the front-liners [and] didn’t take no s**t from nobody” and, to this day, are monumental women in this united movement.

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