Episode Two: Sylvia Rivera

Happy Cancer Season!

On this episode of Star Gays we are going to do a deep dive into the chart of activist Sylvia Rivera. Rivera was a gay liberation and transgender rights activist as well as community organizer in New York City in the years immediately following the Stonewall riots.

We talk about Sylvia's Cancer Sun and the archetype of the mother, we look at her Sun-Uranus conjunction as both revolutionary and divisive, and we explore how that Mars-Saturn-Chiron T-square tells a painful but important story. (and more!)

Link to Sylvia Rivera's chart: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Rivera,_Sylvia

Links to sources used:

https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-15_60f0aa51e7765_sylvia-rivera-sylvia-riveras-talk-at-lgmny-june-2001-lesbian-and-gay-community-services-center-new-york-city-3.pdf https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/gay-power-is-trans-history-street-transvestite-action-revolutionaries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Liberation_Front https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/sylvia-rivera-part-2/ https://gaycitynews.com/exploding-the-myths-of-stonewall/ https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/sylvia-rivera-1951-2002-by-michael-bronski/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Transvestite_Action_Revolutionaries https://www.workers.org/2006/us/lavender-red-73/ https://www.queerbible.com/queerbible/2017/10/8/interview-sylvia-rivera-by-leslie-feinberg

https://www.biography.com/activists/marsha-p-johnson-sylvia-rivera-friendship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWwD_D0Guhs (Sylvia Rivera 20 min doc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI2bxUSRF7I (”I gave them their pride”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-JIOWUw1o (Y'all better quiet down) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Non-Discrimination_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_Act_(United_States) https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/transy-house/ https://zagria.blogspot.com/2015/10/bebe-scarpinato-1951-activist-teacher.html https://zagria.blogspot.com/2017/03/bubbles-rose-lee-194-activist.html#.XRGJndNKhE4

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