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Sylvia Rivera stands in front of a banner that reads "Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries."
Sylvia Rivera at a Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) demonstration, 1970.

Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries founded.

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Sylvia Rivera at a Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) demonstration, 1970.

Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson found Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).

STAR begins after a sit-in at Weinstein Hall at New York University protesting school administrators who canceled a dance because it was sponsored by a gay organization. The sit-in brings together many groups, including the Gay Liberation Front and Radicalesbians.

Rivera and Johnson take note of how few spaces exist for street and trans youth, and decide to found STAR.