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LGBTQ+ historians spoke with Newsweek about the history of activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
June 28, 1969, people rose up against a police raid on the NYC gay bar Stonewall Inn. It sparked a movement. This is episode ...
Sylvia Rivera kicked down doors, shook the room, and dared the world to keep up! ... She was just 17 when she found herself ...
Sylvia Rivera was practically born with a megaphone in hand. She was assigned male at birth, which came with a lot of expectations about how boys should and should not dress. Rivera did not follow the ...
Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and countless other trans and gender-nonconforming individuals fought bravely, and often at great personal risk, to push back against oppressive systems," the ...
Sylvia Rivera was one of the most influential activists in the Gay Liberation Movement of the 1960s and ’70s. A drag queen and transgender woman, Rivera was a key figure in the Stonewall Riots ...
There's a good chance a transgender person helped pioneer a medical procedure you've had, or helped write the score to your ...
The National Park Service has removed transgender references from its website commemorating the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, erasing transgender activists such as Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera ...
Browde also noted the contributions of trans activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera to the efforts at Stonewall in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, which is owned by Elon Musk, a Trump ally.
The National Park Service has removed mentions of "transgender" from its website for the Stonewall National Monument in New York, a small park dedicated to an LGBTQ+ uprising that helped advance ...