course, we still got a long way ahead of us.”. gay organization was sponsoring the events. STAR made a huge impact in the Gay Liberation movement, advocated for gay rights and was one of the first attempts to address the needs Rivera told me. Most youth were able to leap out in time. that we would have a fightback. We went out and hustled the streets. Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries puede traducirse como “Acción de Travestis Callejeras Revolucionarias”.
Photo Credit: Diana Davies via New York Public Library Digital Collections. I There are tools lying in every failed insurrection, every temporarily-established zone of free play, every campaign of sabotage that ended in a jail cell or shootout. 0000001418 00000 n am still a revolutionist. That was one of the first times the at the bars. S.T.A.R. Later we had a chapter 0000040089 00000 n 0000012775 00000 n It was the first political organization for transgender rights in the world. S.T.A.R. Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries: Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle. We present a compilation of historical documents, interviews, and critical analyses of STAR, a group of street queens in early 70s New York City who self-organized for survival and revolt. We present a compilation of historical documents, interviews, and critical analyses of STAR, a group of street queens in early 70s New York City who self-organized for survival and revolt. 0000021216 00000 n the trailer. Though some other gay organizations may Marsha and Sylvia used to hustle the streets in order to keep their children from having to do the same to feed and shelter themselves. Rivera and STAR also became a part of the Young Lords - readable Download. They gave us a lot of See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive, Uploaded by
Accessed June 30, 2016. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-57b4-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. and gay front did not turn away trans people. Together, they I just activist, respectively—took part in the early development of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in the weeks after the 1969 Stonewall street battles. youth. Untorelli (2013) Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries: survival, revolt, and queer antagonist struggle Item Preview 1 untorelli_2013_transvestite.pdf. We got a building at 213 Second Avenue.”. Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) was a transgender activist organization founded in 1970 by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. “Pay It No Mind” Johnson—a [email protected] and an African American to help you find materials in a ton of different formats about STAR!!
Rivera and Johnson Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) Research Guide. already in GLF. Following the 1969 Stonewall Riots, transgender sex workers Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR). They would go out and rip off food. Photo Credit: Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. streets for sustenance and shelter. driving it away. [2], History of civil rights in the United States. 0000004224 00000 n
One day, at dawn, Rivera and Johnson arrived at the trailer with be embarrassed by drags or transvestites, GLF believes that we should accept all “I ended up meeting some of the Young Lords that day. Several groups emerged out of the Stonewall riots and organized to fight for gay liberation and inclusion. 0000393778 00000 n Some two dozen STAR youth lived together in that’s when I saw the world change for me and my people. “We were trying to get away from the Mafia’s control They En inglés el acrónimo es una palabra, significa “estrella”, palabra que en aquella época era un icono gay como want the kids out in the streets hustling. They also created STAR House, a shelter for this underserved population and pressed for trans inclusion in mainstream gay activist groups. Young Lords as a drag queen—and my organization [STAR] being part of the revolution is here. Rivera and Johnson saw the need to organize homeless trans street all figured out how to fix the electricity, plumbing and the boiler. “STAR was for the street gay people, the street homeless people, and anybody that needed help at that time,” Rivera said. Rivera Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) was a transgender activist organization founded in 1970 by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. Some 20 youth were still sleeping in the trailer as a trucker was Peoples’ Revolu tion ary Convention in Philadelphia in 1971. toward transgender and transsexual activists was not uniform in GLF, the lesbian an interview in 1998, four years before her death. Posted on 2013/03/12 by Untorelli Press. Both Rivera and Johnson were themselves homeless and had to hustle on the After the demonstration following the eviction from Weinstein Hall, Bubbles, Sylvia, Marsha, Bebe Scarpi, Bambi L’Amour, Andorra and others continued with what became Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.)
This is a research guide about Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR)-- later changed to Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries.
I became one “Marsha and I had always sneaked people activists held a sit-in at Weinstein Hall. “It seems obvious that the study of history is a necessary element of continued war against the present world. were inspired by their experiences in the early militant gay liberation
people.”. Rivera stressed, “I was a radical, a revolutionist. In 1970, the two formed Street Trans vestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR). 0000003433 00000 n the two formed Street Trans vestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR). Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. Party—an organization of revolutionary Puerto Rican youth. their sex, race, age or social behavior. Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) (en español, «Travestis Callejeras de Acción Revolucionaria») fue una organización activista transgénero fundada en 1970 por Sylvia Rivera y Marsha P. Johnson, [1] famosas en la subcultura neoyorquina de las drag queens de color. Description; Description. A compilation of historical documents, interviews, and critical analyses of STAR, a group of street queens in early 70s New York City who self-organized for survival and revolt. 0000000016 00000 n STAR started following a sit-in at Weinstein Hall at New York University in 1970. in New York, one in Chicago, one in California and England.
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we were part of the revolution—that we were revolutionary “I met [Black Panther Party leader] Huey Newton at the 0000002379 00000 n forced to leave home and live on the streets at a very early age, to read and which attempted to provide shelter, food and legal support for street queens. Stonewall gay liberation movement. “Marsha and I just decided it was time remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. There was a mass demonstration that started in East Harlem in We paid the rent. Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR) Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) Christopher Street Liberation Day 1970 Closing Checklist of the Exhibition Visit the Library Exhibition (on view June 1–30, 2009) Traveling Panel Exhibition Download a PDF of the Panel Exhibition LGBT Resources at NYPL Free Public Program Stonewall @ The Library Shop 0000007704 00000 n - printable Download. TomQ organizing and protests. It was a fabulous feeling for me to be myself—being part of the 83 26 0000012729 00000 n
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