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Stonewall veteran Sylvia Rivera leads the ACT-UP march past New York's Madison Square Park, June 26, 1994. The march was one of two held on Sunday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the riot at the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village bar that erupted in violence during a police raid in 1969. The incident is now considered the start of the gay rights movement. Virtually every reliable account credits Sylvia, a man who prefers the feminine pronoun, with a major role in the riot. (AP Photo/Justin Sutcliffe)

Inside Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Riviera's Friendship

The two revolutionary LGBTQ+ activists developed a friendship while fighting for transgender rights in the 1960s and '70s.
By Colin Bertram
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