SYLVIA RIVERA TRANS MOVEMENT FOUNDER
Sylvia Rivera founded the transgendered movement. She organized the very first demonstration specifically for transgendered rights. She got T added to LGBT. Homeless boy prostitute at twelve, she struggled with drug addiction alcoholism for much of her life but remained a trailblazer in the fight for social justice, especially transgender human rights. Ultimately, she overcame substance abuse, worked as manager of my art deco antique shop in Greenwich Village After years of volunteer work at the
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