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Sylvia Rivera being heartily booed by gays and lesbians at 1973 gay rally (OMG - he's nuts...)(youtube.com)

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RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 22 insightful - 4 fun22 insightful - 3 fun23 insightful - 4 fun 2 years ago

You weren’t joking about the comment section. Guess I’m a racist now, since I know that this crossdresser who went by the name of Sylvia Rivera has done absolutely nothing but tell lies and sleep on benches.

JulienMayfair 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun 2 years ago

I saw a longer, later interview with Rivera, and he obviously had some flavor of personality disorder. I mean, Rivera was living on the street in some ramshackle shelter, no education, no skills, unemployable. How did such a complete fuck-up become a hero?

Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun 2 years ago

How did such a complete fuck-up become a hero?

Simple: activists needed a reason to justify including TQ+ shite into the LGB rights umbrella, and so they completely fabricated an icon to help doing so.

Also, at this point, the Stonewall Riots aren't even a historic event anymore, but a creation myth.

RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun 2 years ago

TRAs needed a hero, so they invented one. They just needed a template. Rivera was the perfect one, because he was known at the time for being a crossdresser.