Rivera reinvigorated it in June of 2000 to hold a rally and vigil after the death of Amanda Milan, a transwoman murdered outside New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal. A veteran of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, Sylvia was a tireless advocate for all those who have been marginalized as the “gay rights” movement has mainstreamed. Sylvia fought hard against the exclusion of transgender people from the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act in New York, and was a loud and persistent voice for the rights of people of color and low-income queers and trans people. Today, they still do. It had been over 30 years since Stonewall, but trans rights still had so much further to go. Kay Lahusen. Sylvia Rivera, who helped lead the charge -- in makeup and full voice -- at the birth of the modern gay liberation movement, died yesterday at St. Vincent's Manhattan Hospital. She was born in 1951 in New York to a Puerto Rican father and a Venezuelan mother. L020A Sylvia Rivera, “Y’all Better Quiet Down” Original Authorized Video by LoveTapesCollective, 1973 Gay Pride Rally NYC NOTE: All negative comments will be removed. Her life spanned the second half of the twentieth century, a time when gay rights became a national topic and the fabric of the LGBTQ community changed drastically. Transgender activist, advocate for drag queens and other gender non-conforming people, and the voice and support for countless queer youth, Sylvia Rivera was somebody who never quietly or calmly accepted the status quo. Two years before her death, Stonewall veteran Sylvia Rivera served as muse for a photography series captured by Valerie Shaff.The black-and-white images feature the …
Sylvia Rivera and friend in 1970. Category On February 19, 2002, Rivera died from liver cancer at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center in New York, NY. She died of liver cancer in …
She died of liver cancer in 2002 at age 50. After Ms. Johnson’s death, Ms. Rivera found a home at Transy House, a shelter for transgender people in Brooklyn. Rivera lived a turbulent life.