Rivera, Sylvia, 1951-2002

LC control no.	no2016144394
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Rivera, Sylvia, 1951-2002 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	19510702
Death date	20020219
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Field of activity	Gay rights Gay liberation movement
Found in	Rivera, Sylvia. "S.T.A.R." Acción Travesti Callejera Revolucionaria, 2015: title page (Sylvia Rivera) front cover flap (1951-2002; Puerto Rican, transexual revolutionary) Wikipedia WWW page 27 October 2016: Sylvia Rivera (2 July, 1951-19 February, 2002; gay liberation and transgender activist and drag queen; founding member of the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance; with her close friend Marsha P. Johnson, co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens and trans women of color; born and raised in New York city; was born as Ray Rivera and was of Puerto Rican and Venezuela descent; began living on the streets at the age of 11, working as a prostitute; was taken in by a local community of drag queens, who gave her the name Sylvia; died at New York's St. Vincent's Hospital of complications from liver cancer; considered the Rosa Park of the modern transgender movement; her gender identity was complex and varied throughout her life, and in a 1995 interview referred to herself alternately as a "gay man", a "gay girl", a drag queen/street queen, and again as a "gay man")
Associated language	eng