Sylvia Rivera Law Project Celebrates 10th Anniversary
by Winnie McCroy
EDGE Contributor
Saturday Dec 15, 2012
http://www.edgenewyork.com/news/local/features//139630/sylvia_rivera_law_project_celebrates_10th_anniversaryThe Sylvia Rivera Law Project celebrates a decade of helping trans people and communities of color with free legal help, policy reform, public education and precedent-setting litigation that improves their lives. In a special celebration in November, they honored LGBT advocates Janet Mock, Lorena Borjas, Stefanie Rivera, Kris Hayashi and Collette Carter, who -- like Sylvia Rivera herself -- share their mission to make life better for trans people of color.
"I never got the chance to know Sylvia Rivera in her life, but to see that her legacy of taking care of her own -- low-income, heavily policed communities of trans and queer folks of color -- is vibrantly living through SRLP is a close, close second, and then to be honored is a blessing that humbles me greatly," transgender activist Janet Mock told EDGE.
From the Stonewall Riots to her death in 2002, Rivera was a force to be reckoned with. She fought for low-income people and LGBT homeless kids living on the piers in New York City. According to some accounts, Rivera was among the original Stonewall rioters, responding to a plea to return to her home with, "I'm not missing any of this; it's the revolution!"
