Bettye Lane Gay Rights Movement Photographs

Rivera, Sylvia, 1951-2002

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Sylvia Rivera was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who was also a noted community worker in New York. Rivera, who identified as a drag queen for most of her life and later as a transgender person, participated in demonstrations with the Gay Liberation Front. With Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women....

Johnson, Marsha P., 1945-1992

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Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992) was as an outspoken advocate for gay rights and drag queen; she was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969. Johnson was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front and co-founded the radical activist group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), alongside close friend Sylvia Rivera....

Lane, Bettye, 1930-

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