Reply #78: Transgender legend [View All]

[FranMonet]

As a transgendered I say the person responsable for the 
stonewall riot.

Sylvia Rivera, popularly credited as being the instigator of
the Stonewall Riots, passed away this morning at approximately
5:00 AM, February 19, 2002, in the intensive care unit of St.
Vincent's Hospital, in New York's Greenwich Village. She had
been in and out of the hospital recently due to cancer of the
liver. Both her lover, Julia Murray, and Reverend Pat
Bumgardner of the MCC-NY (Metropolitan Community Church-New
York), were at her side as she passed on. She was 53.

An internationally recognized pioneer in what became known as
the "Gay Rights Movement", Ms. Rivera was one of the
collection of drag queens, transsexuals and stone butch
lesbians on the scene, June 27,1969 -- the fateful moment of
the Stonewall Riots. Though the uprising is the subject of
legend, Sylvia Rivera's name was always synonymous with the
catalytic moment that became history. On an annual basis, she
was requested across the country, and across the globe, to
recount the historic incident in first-person detail.