Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries

Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries

Gay Liberation

Founded in New York City in 1970 as a caucus within the Gay Liberation Front, the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, or STAR, was an activist organization established by legendary civil rights activists and drag queens of color, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha Johnson, to advocate for homeless drag queens and young gay runaways. Both Rivera and Johnson were veterans of the Stonewall rebellion and the intense period of radical political organizing the proceeded it. STAR addressed the intersectionality of race and class with sexuality by emphasizing poverty and homelessness within the transgender community.

Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries

Roz Payne

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

ca. 1970

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