LGBTQ+ historians spoke with Newsweek about the history of activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.

Sylvia Rivera, a trans activist, is rumored to have thrown the second molotov cocktail of the Stonewall rebellion. But she's slowly disappeared from the narrative of that night.

“Sylvia Rivera is known for throwing the first bottle at the Stonewall Riots.” Sylvia Rivera herself said in 2001 — “I have been given the credit for throwing the first Molotov cocktail ...

In this June 26, 1994, file photo, LGBT pioneer Sylvia Rivera leads an ACT-UP march past New York's Union Square Park. The rebellion at the Stonewall Inn is one of the most important events that ...

AMY GOODMAN: And that last voice, Sylvia Rivera, in the documentary Remembering Stonewall, produced in 1999 by Dave Isay and Michael Schirker. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall ...

Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, two pioneering LGBTQ activists and leaders in the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, will be immortalized with a new monument in New York City.

Early LGBT rights activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will be commemorated with a monument in New York's Greenwich Village, near the epicenter of the historic Stonewall riots. The ...

Retropolis The transgender women at Stonewall were pushed out of the gay rights movement. Now they are getting a statue in New York. The monument honoring Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will ...

While the raid and the riot that followed went down in history, Rivera and Johnson's contributions related to the uprising didn't make much news.In fact, as iconic as Stonewall was to the gay ...

Rivera was politicized by the events that took place at Stonewall, and she would go on to become a leading voice in the passage of New York’s Sexual Nondiscrimination Act.