Happy Birthday Sylvia!

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Happy Birthday Sylvia!
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
02 July, 2010


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/happy-birthday-sylvia.html


Today is the birthday of the mother of the trans rights movement as we call her, Sylvia Rae Rivera.

She was born in New York City on this date in 1951 to parents of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan extraction, and was a founding member of both the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance.

She also founded with her friend Marsha P. Johnson STAR (Street ->-bleeped-<- Action Revolutionaries), a group focused on helping homeless young street transwomen.