Sylvia Rivera at the fourth annual Christopher Street Liberation Day March, 1973

Sylvia Rivera and the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.) marching in the fourth annual Christopher Street Liberation Day March in 1973. 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 Richard C. Wandel Photographs Collection, The LGBT Community Center National History Archives.