Sylvia Rivera on police bribes at the Stonewall Inn

Sylvia Rivera discusses how the police would take pay-offs from the mafia-controlled gay bars. Rivera was a trans activist and the co-founder of S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries). Sylvia Rivera audio clip courtesy of Making Gay History, www.makinggayhistory.com. Photograph by Diana Davies, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.