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Sylvia Rivera during the filming of "The Transexual Menace" (1996)
photo by Mariette Pathy Allen [website] [instagram]
I know I’m one day late but Happy Pride!
We wouldn’t have the rights we do today without Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, two trans women of colour who threw the first stones at Stonewall, which was a riot.
Also, in my country, the fight for LGBTQ+ rights started after a man, Declan Flynn, was murdered by 5 men who were released without charge. The whole country came together in protest to change things.
Sylvia Riveras powerful speech against the exclusion of transgender people at the Gay Pride Rally NYC, 1973.
Reminder that if you're gay, you do not get to be transphobic. "oOoO TrANS PEoPLe mAkE mE unComFy" SHUT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK UP
You bitches know what it's like to be oppressed and abused for not fitting the straight mold, but when it's gender and not sexuality, you act like these experiences of finding yourself in a way that defies societal norms aren't similar at all.
Also, were it not for TRANS icons like Marsha p Johnson and Sylvia Rivera along with the other queer POC that led the stonewall riots, pride would flat out not be a thing(in the us).
You don't get to cherry pick which parts of the community you support. Respect them all, or GET 👏 THE 👏 FUCK 👏 OUT 👏. Watch your fucking mouth, and remember exactly who got you your freedoms.
Sylvia Riveras powerful speech against the exclusion of transgender people at the Gay Pride Rally NYC, 1973.
Sylvia Rivera during the filming of "The Transexual Menace" (1996)
photo by Mariette Pathy Allen [website] [instagram]
Sylvia Riveras powerful speech against the exclusion of transgender people at the Gay Pride Rally NYC, 1973.
Some of the principle actors of the stonewall rebellion
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History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities. — Marsha P. Johnson
Queens started being filed out and being put into police cars, and guns had been drawn. Molotov cocktails were flying. And I’m like, “Oh my God, the revolution is here. Thank God. You’ve been treating us like shit all these years? Uh uh. Now it’s our turn.” — Sylvia Rivera
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Sylvia Rivera calling out gays and lesbians for their trans exclusion in 1973 at the Christopher Street Liberation Day rally (x)