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  1. Sylvia Rivera and Arthur Bell at Gay Liberation Demonstration

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: New York Public Library
    Creator: Davies, Diana
    Date: 1970
    Topics: Drag queens, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, QTPOC, Transfeminine people, Transgender people
    Subject: Arthur Bell, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: A photograph of Sylvia Rivera holding a sign that reads "POWER TO THE PEOPLE" and Arthur Bell protesting at a gay liberation demonstration at New York University in 1970.
  2. Suspicious Death of Transvestite

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Feinberg, Leslie
    Date: Jul. 24, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay liberation, LGBTQ+ death notices, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project (AVP), Marsha P. Johnson, Queens Liberation Front, Stonewall Rebellion, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: This item is a clipping from Seattle Gay News issued in July 1992 about Marsha P. Johnson's death earlier that month. The clipping describes how Marsha died, who she was and what she did while she ...
  3. STONEWALL STORIES PART I OF II

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Bronski, Michael, Carlo, Vivian, Robinson, Colin, Poggi, Stephanie, Burns, Randy, Shively, Charley, Stowell, Sterling, Nestle, Joan, Lorde, Audre, Ewing, Tess, Rose, Steven, Abelove, Henry
    Date: Jun. 11, 1989
    Topics: AIDS awareness, Black LGBTQ+ people, Drag queens, Gay community, HIV/AIDS, Homophiles, Indigenous LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ discrimination, LGBTQ+ people of color, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Police harassment, Stonewall riots, Transvestites
    Subject: Bread and Roses, Daughters of Bilitis, Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), Gay Community News, Gay Liberation Front, Gay Women's Liberation, Lesbian History Archives, March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, Marsha P. Johnson, Mattachine Society, Radicalesbians, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera, That Certain Summer
    Description: A collection of stories and remembrances from the Stonewall riots and 1969. Writers comment on memory, inclusion, and what the riots mean as a symbol. Originally published on pages 14 through 17 of...
  4. Still Here: Sylvia, Who Survived Stonewall, Time and the River

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Kaufman, Michael T.
    Date: May 24, 1995
    Topics: Drag queens, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, LGBTQ+ suicide, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, LGBTQ+ youth, Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Red ribbons (AIDS), Stonewall riots, Substance abuse, Trans women, Transvestites
    Subject: Bellevue Hospital, Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at CUNY Graduate Center, Hudson River, Marsha P. Johnson, St. Joseph's Hospital, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to suicide.
  5. Photographs of Sylvia Rivera Protesting the 1996 "Stonewall" Film with a Group Including Ivan Valentin, Cocoa Rodriguez, Randy Wicker, and Martin Duberman

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: 1996
    Topics: Drag queens, Gay men, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Cocoa Rodriguez, Ivan Valentin, Martin Duberman, Randy Wicker, Stonewall (Film), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Photographs of Sylvia Rivera, wearing a white shirt, jeans, and a yellow sash. She's standing with a group protesting director Nigel Finch's "Stonewall" film in 1996. Ivan Valentin with curly blond...
  6. PAY IT NO MIND! A Memorial Tribute to SAINT MARSHA P. JOHNSON

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: 1992
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Drag community, Drag queens, Family members of LGBTQ+ people, Gay pride week, LGBTQ+ death and dying, LGBTQ+ memorials, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Agosto Machado, Bob Kohler, Bob Storm, Dr. Marjorie Hill, George Flimlin, Jean Michaels, Jeremiah Newton, Jimmy Camicia, Judy Hirschberg, Mama Jean, Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Understood, Norma Michaels, Queer Donna, Regina Finlin, Robert Michaels, Sylvia Rivera, The Boy Bar Beauties
    Description: Movie produced, directed, and filmed by Randy Wicker, and edited by Fred N. Orlansky. Depicts the Gay Pride Parade in New York City on Jun 28th, 1992. Also shows the street memorial where Marsha Jo...
  7. NYC Gay Pride

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: Independent Voices
    Creator: The Gay Liberator
    Date: Aug. 1, 1973
    Topics: Drag queens, Female impersonators, Gay activism, Gay pride, Gay pride parades, Heterosexual women, Latino/a/x transgender people, Lesbian activism, Lesbian feminism, Lesbian pride, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ events, Stonewall riots, Transgender activism, Transvestites
    Subject: Arthur Bell, Bette Midler, Craig Rodwell, Jean O'Leary, Lee Brewster, Oscar Wilde Book Shops, Queens Liberation Front, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera, The Village Voice, Vito Russo
    Description: Clipping from page 5 of The Gay Liberator, issue 29, published August 1, 1973.
  8. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: OUTWORDS
    Creator: Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major
    Date: Jul. 27, 2016
    Topics: Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Catholic Church, Drag, Drag queens, Gay men, Gender affirming surgery, LGBTQ+ clubs, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Misogyny, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, Normalization, Passing (Gender), Police, Sex work, Sissies, Stonewall riots, Substance abuse, Trans men, Trans women, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia, Women's movement
    Subject: Ashley, Christine Jorgensen, Cookie, Evelyn, Frank Smith, Grandma Cerils, Helen, Judy Garland, Kitty, Madison Society, Major!, Marcus Arana, Marsha P. Johnson, Mattachine Society, Miss Major, Monica, Natalie Wood, National Lawyers Guild, Puppy, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: Interview with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy conducted by Mason Funk August 27, 2016 at the apartment she shared with her son in Oakland. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was one of a group of transgender women...
  9. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Griffin-Gracy, Major, Lewis, AJ
    Date: Dec. 16, 2017
    Topics: Care, Clothing, Crossdressing, Drag queens, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender realignment surgery, HIV/AIDS, Hormones, Law, Legal aid, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Organisations, Police, Prisons, Stigmatisation, Transgender people, Transgender prostitution, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Angels for Care, Christine Jorgensen, Griffin Gracy Historical Retreat and Resource Center, Harry Benjamin, Major Griffin-Gracy, Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Major, Sylvia Rivera, Tenderloin AIDs Resource Project, Trans Gender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project
    Description: In this interview, Miss Major talks about the culture of transwomen sex workers in New York City and Chicago during the 1960's through 1980's as well as her care-work and advocacy during the rise o...
  10. Kristen Lovell Oral History

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project
    Creator: Lovell, Kristen
    Date: Apr. 4, 2019
    Topics: Actors, Bisexual youth, Black people, Bullying, Cocaine, Drag, Drag queens, Gay and lesbian youth, Health care, Homeless people, Jews, LGBTI community, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender), Women, Writers
    Subject: Amanda Milan, Center Lane, Chi-Chi's, Cole Cafe, Covenant House, Fenced Out, Iris House, James Street Hotel, March of Dimes, Marsha P. Johnson, Michael Bloomberg, New Neutral Zone, New York Police Department (NYPD), Octavia St. Laurent, Operation Spotlight, Rites of Passage, Stonewall mobile, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera, Trans Empowerment Group, Two Potatoes
    Description: Kristen Lovell discusses her time working "the stroll," in the West Village in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She recounts the community, conflict and challenges faced by fellow sex workers, inclu...
  11. Interview with Michael Lynch

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Kearns, John J., Lynch, Michael
    Date: Dec. 6, 2000
    Topics: Black queer people, Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gender expression, HIV/AIDS, Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Performance art, QTPOC, Stonewall riots, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Andy Warhol, Christopher Street Columbus Tour, Hot Peaches, Jimmy Camicia, Marsha P. Johnson, Spare Change for a Dying Queen, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: An interview with Micheal Lynch. The two talk about Lynch's experience in the Hot Peaches, and provides stories about Marsha P. Johnson. Lynch describes the group's trip to London and Hambrug—speci...
  12. Interview with Aria Said

     
    Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
    Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
    Creator: Said, Aria
    Date: Jun. 6, 2017
    Topics: Adopted children, African American transgender people, Appearance, Assigned gender, Black people, Catholic Church--Education, Drag queens, Film, Foster parents, Gender identity, Gender realignment surgery, Gender role, Genderfluid identity, Gentrification, Imprisonment, Language, Mental health, MtFs, NGOs, Passing (Gender), Privilege (Social psychology), Self-acceptance, Serial killings, Sexuality, Social media, Therapies, Transgender community, Transgender people, Visibility
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Harry Benjamin Standards of Care, Isis King, Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Major, Sojurner Truth Leadership Circle Fellowship for Transformational Leadership, Stonewall, Sylvia Rivera, TGI Justice Project
    Description: Aria Said identifies as a black heterosexual transsexual female or trans woman, and she was assigned male at birth. She was born and raised in Portland, Oregon as well as Beaverton, Oregon, which i...
  13. Drag Vol. 2 No. 8 (1972)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1972
    Topics: Activists, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Civil rights, Comic strips, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transsexualism
    Subject: Mardi Gras Ball, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: On item cover: "Now! America's No.1 magazine about the transvestite!" ; Contents: News -- Queens with balls -- Salmacis society -- Drag yearbook -- Coming events -- Mardi Gras in New Orleans -- Get...
  14. Drag Vol. 2 No. 7 (1972)

     
    Collection: Drag
    Institution: Transgender Oral History Project
    Creator: Brewster, Lee G.
    Date: 1972
    Topics: Activists, BIPOC, Black transgender people, Civil rights, Comic strips, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Gender identity, Male prostitution, MtFs, Politics, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transsexualism
    Subject: Laura McAllister, Mardi Gras Ball, Marsha P. Johnson, Raelle Sisters, Sylvia Rivera, Vicky West
    Description: Contents: Editorial -- Spotlight -- News -- The Raelle sisters -- Shakespeare's boy actress -- here, there, everywhere -- Male prostitutes -- TVIC: Hartford -- Coming events -- Getting together.
  15. American Originals

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Hall, Alexandra
    Date: Jan. 14, 1996
    Topics: Drag queens, Latino/a/x queer people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Trans women
    Subject: Sylvia Rivera
    Description: A clipping from the New York Times talking about a book "Holding On" from Norton which has a profile of Sylvia Rivera in it.