Sylvia Rivera

LaLa Zannell, a New York-based transgender rights activist, poses outside The Stonewall Inn in New York, U.S., May 30, 2019.

Forsaken transgender pioneers recognized 50 years after Stonewall

LGBTQ

As the 50th anniversary of Stonewall approaches, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are receiving a belated measure of recognition in death that coincides with a growing awareness of transgender rights. 

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