SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Sylvia Rivera

1951 - 2002

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2024). Sylvia Rivera is the 604th most popular social activist (down from 585th in 2024), the 10,308th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,506th in 2019) and the 90th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sylvia Rivera ranks 604 out of 840. Before her are Denis Goldberg, Akira Amano, Mamie Till, Luisa Cuesta, Hu Jia, and Salih Mahmoud Osman. After her are Shin Dong-hyuk, Anna Aloys Henga, Iqbal Masih, Martin Luther King III, Dolores Huerta, and Yelizaveta Chaikina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Sylvia Rivera ranks 549. Before her are Uri Lupolianski, Felipe Muñoz, Anne Alvaro, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Žarko Varajić, and Maki Kaji. After her are Terry McDermott, Ray Kennedy, Kazimierz Kmiecik, Nedim Gürsel, Dean Kamen, and Lin Chuan. Among people deceased in 2002, Sylvia Rivera ranks 304. Before her are Bob Hayes, Katrin Cartlidge, Lotfia Elnadi, Mitsuo Ikeda, Sergei Bodrov Jr., and Desmond Hoyte. After her are Joyce Cooper, Lev Kulidzhanov, Jürgen Werner, Marga Petersen, Davey Boy Smith, and Martin Kamen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sylvia Rivera ranks 10,313 out of 20,380. Before her are Pam Shriver (1962), Tara Westover (1986), Sue Carol (1906), Marguerite De La Motte (1902), Roky Erickson (1947), Howard Hanson (1896), Leon Schlesinger (1884), Jason Kidd (1973), and Riley Keough (1989). After her are James Corson (1906), Magic Sam (1937), and Norman Kerry (1894).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Sylvia Rivera ranks 90. Before her are Lizzie Velásquez (1989), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890), Ella Baker (1903), Albert Parsons (1848), Ralph Abernathy (1926), and Mamie Till (1921). After her are Martin Luther King III (1957), Dolores Huerta (1930), Barbara Bush (1981), Yolanda King (1955), James Meredith (1933), and Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (1861).

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