Christopher Street Liberation Day March, 1973

Members of S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) at the fourth annual Christopher Street Liberation Day March, 1973. Sylvia Rivera founded S.T.A.R. in 1969 with Marsha P. Johnson as a splinter group from the Gay Liberation Front, to focus on supporting New York’s trans community and providing shelter for trans homeless youth. Photograph from the Rudy Grillo Collection, the LGBT Community Center National History Archives.