Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera, 1989

Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at the 1989 Pride March in New York. Rivera and Johnson founded S.T.A.R. in 1969 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.