I believe that Sylvia Rivera is one of the three most important LGBTQ+ figures in America since 1970, because of her actions during her lifetime and the legacy that she left behind. In particular, her activism called out the conservative and exclusionary politics of LGBT rights groups in the 1970s, and the erasure of transgender women and drag queens from larger movements despite their significance to those groups. Much of Rivera’s activism focused on the inclusion and protection of transgender people, and that legacy continues today. For example, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, an organization that provides legal help to non-cisgender people of color, is named in her honor and fights for many of the same causes that Sylvia herself did. Sylvia, along with her friend and fellow activist Marsha P. Johnson, formed the organization Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in the 1970s, to advocate for and house homeless drag queens in New York City. Although STAR was not a particularly long-lasting organization, Sylvia’s work through STAR and the Metropolitan Community Church of New York left their mark, and the Metropolitan Community Church of New York’s shelter for LGBT youth is named after Sylvia. Because of her impact upon the LGBT community during and after the 1970s, I think that Sylvia Rivera would be an excellent choice for one of the three most important LGBTQ+ figures since 1970. A second person who I think is one of the three most important LGBTQ+ activists
On March17 , 1985 Richard had bought a .22-caliber revolver from a guy off the street (Carlo). He also had stolen a car from a gas station then hopped on theLos Angeles freeway looking for his next vicim. While on the freeway he seen Maria Hernandez driving her gold Camaro home after having dinner at her boyfriend’s in Monterey Park (Carlo). Hernandez was a petite , attractive brunette with large round eyes and clear olive skin (Carlo). When she exited the freeway she made her way to a residential community of 46,000 in the suburbs of Rosemead. Ramirez followed her for three blocks until she slowed down to make a right into a new condominium community on Village Lane. Maria exited her car holding her keys and brown leather pocketbook. When she went to pushed the button to close the garage door , Ramirez snuck in and dropped his AC/DC hat.
I had the opportunity to interview Mrs. Maria G. Rivera. She Is a hardworking mother who came to the united states at the age of 13 since then she hasn't left. She has no desire of going back to Mexico and considers America home. I had the chance to dig deep into her early life history, which I will talk about in the next paragraph. I learned how much she values her children and how much she cares for them, which Is the reason why she decided to make a move and come to the United States because she was thinking of her future kids and didn't want them to experience the harsh life she lived when being a young girl.
Jenni rivera, indeed the most unbreakable person I have ever read about. In the book she goes thru many things thats shes been thru and I have to admit it's so much that she's been thru, in the book she states that she was a rebel since she was small gave lots of problems to her parents, she daily got into fights and that she got expelled from school. Throughout her life she suffered so much and she got rapped and hit by her first husband named Juan which was devastating to read and know about because she looked as of a role model to follow. Soon during those times she began to go out and sing to bars once she hit the age needed to sing there her dad made her go and sing and practice then the bar owner wanted to contract her after that and
I am a member of the Butterfly Project Program. In class I painted a ceramic butterfly in memory of Yolanda Debax, a girl who died in the Holocaust.
Laurie Hernandez was born on June 9, 2000 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her family includes parents Anthony and Wanda Hernandez, brother Marcus, and sister Jelysa. At age sixteen, standing only five foot and one hundred and seven pounds, Laurie Hernandez made the US Olympic Gymnastics team, but she couldn’t do it without the help from coaches Maggie Haney and Victoria Levine. (Laurie)
Imagine a world where the social and economic conditions for the farm workers and immigrants get worst year by year, where the discrimination among these people growth and never decline. What would happen to farm workers if Dolores Huerta shouldn’t have made any action to change their situation? This same question should be in the mind of many Americans who don’t appreciate all the effort and work that Huerta put in to change our nation. Persistent, powerful, brave, strong, simply a heroin are the best words to describe Dolores Huerta, who is one of the most important women who contributed to the creation of an equal and fair society in the United States because, she founded the Agricultural Workers Association (AWA) and also she helped create the National United Farm Workers Association (UFWA) with Cesar Chavez, she helped organize a nationwide boycott of abusive grape growers, and she founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
Dolores Huerta was born on April 10th, 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico. Dolores was the
Once upon a time there was a courageous women, named Maria Julia Hernandez, who I call my hero. Hernandez was born in San Francisco Morazán, Honduras in 1939. Throughout her life she spoke up for the rights of victims during El Salvador’s civil war. She tended to the victim’s families and held an investigation by gathering evidence of the murders seeking to expose the murderers. Hernandez’s courage and faith inspired others to fight for their freedom. Her faith has inspired me to stand up for what I believe in, no matter what hardships I have to face. Hernandez is considered a true hero through her traits of courage, generosity, and wisdom.
After reading “Rev. Sekou on Today’s Civil Rights Leaders: ‘I Take My Orders From 23-Year-Old Queer Women” and “The Soapbox: On the Stonewall Rebellion’s Trans History”, it’s very interesting to see what has and hasn’t changed in terms of who the public sees as the “leaders” of a movement. The piece on the Stonewall Riots and how they are remembered and represented in media (as lead by white, cis, gay men) reminded me of the comment Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou made on the demographic that the “majority of the black leadership” has tended to be. When remembering the Stonewall Riots, many people either choose to ignore or are not aware of the queer, trans, black women who were on the front lines. And although Rev. Sekou brings forth the knowledge
Dr evelina lopez antonetty was a very important leader in Puerto Rico. She helped get women rights in Puerto Rico , like equal rights , rights to vote, women go to school and equal pay.
A self-described “bitch on wheels”, Sylvia Rivera was a teenage runaway who became one of the world’s earliest and most passionate advocates for transgender rights. “In many ways,” one writer noted in a Village Voice obituary following her death in 2002, “Sylvia was the Rosa Parks of the modern transgender movement, a term that was not even coined until two decades after Stonewall.”
In the very first softball game Lisa Fernandez played she walked twenty batters and her team lost twenty-eight to zero, and now she holds the pitching record with twenty-one strikeouts in a game. Lisa Fernandez is a right-handed pitcher who established an Olympic Record in softball and was a member of the United States Women’s Softball Team.
This photo shows Sylvia Rivera taking a stand against LGBT+ discrimination. It allowed us to better picture how Sylvia Rivera was one of the most influential LGBT+ people of her time.
In the 65-year history of LGBTQ activism in the United States, the present moment stands out on the basis of gay marriage being legalized. At no other time would an observer have imagined that the LGBTQ movement was likely to succeed in such a manner that any gender can marry any other gender with the permission by the law (Stewart-winter
Born as Ray Mendoza on July 2, 1951, was born of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan descent. She was given the name Sylvia Rivera by a local community of drag queens and spent her career fighting for solidarity between transgender people, queer people of color, homeless people, and sex workers. Sylvia Rivera was one of the “street queens” living in New York, and is known as one of the most famous street youth who fought back during the police raid at Stonewall. Modern day, Rivera has come to personify the aspirations and flaws of the modern gay liberation movement.