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Sylvia Rivera
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American LGBT activist, transgender rights activist, and community worker (1951–2002)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Mystery of the Crown
- What I Have Seen and Heard
- Puertas de Esperanza
- From Peora to Santa Ynez Valley
- Out of the Shadows, into the Light
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1973-08-07
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 19
- Total plays
- 25
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,998x
- Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems
· 2019 · cited 9,180x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 8,016x
- Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2021 · cited 6,869x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,194x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1951-07-02 ) July 2, 1951, New York City, U.S.
- Died
- February 19, 2002 (2002-02-19) (aged 50), New York City, U.S.
- Occupations
- Activist , Caterer , Entertainer
- Known for
- Gay liberation , transgender activist, advocate for the homeless.
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sylvia
- Gender
- trans woman
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- women's rights activist
- Languages spoken
- American English
- Participant in
- Stonewall riots
- Image
- STAR Rally (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- New York City
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- date of birth
- 1951-07-02
- date of death
- 2002-02-19
- cause of death
- liver cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Sylvia Rivera
- writing language
- English language
- affiliation
- Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries
- end of work period
- 2002-02-19
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Sylvia Rivera (July 2, 1951 – February 19, 2002) was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who was also a noted community worker in New York. Rivera, who identified as a drag queen for most of her life and later as a transgender person, participated in demonstrations with the Gay Liberation Front.
With close friend Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sylvia Rivera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.