Sylvia Riveras powerful speech against the exclusion of transgender people at the Gay Pride Rally NYC, 1973.

Transcript:

Y'all better quiet down! I've been trying to get up here all day for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail that write me every motherfucking week and ask for your help! And you all don't do a goddamn thing for them! And they write STAR, not the woman's group! They do not write women, they do not write men, they write to STAR! Because we're trying to do something for them! But you all tell me to go and hide my tail between my legs! I will not put up with this shit! I have been beaten, I have had my nose broken, I have been thrown in jail, I have lost my job, I have lost my apartment for gay liberation, and you all treat me this way?! What the fuck's wrong with you all?! Think about that! I believe in the gay power, I believe in us getting our rights, or else I would not be out there fighting for our rights, that's all I wanted to say to you people. Come and see people at STAR House on Twelfth Street, the people that are trying to do something for all of us, and not men and women that belong to our white middle class club! And that's what you all belong to! Revolution now! Gay power! Know the gay power!

For historical context: Sylvia Rivera was talking about the radical Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) group that she and Marsha P. Johnson founded together in 1970. Together, they ran the S.T.A.R. House, where they pooled every last penny they had to provide a home for young street queens (mostly sex workers, mostly people of color). By the time of this speech (1973) their (gay) landlord had evicted the original STAR House, and they were struggling to keep it going at a new location and desperately needed the LGBTQ+ community to step it up with financial support.

That's what she's talking about when she says "I've been trying to get up here all day for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail that write me every motherfucking week and ask for your help!" She's condemning the white gay cis monied audience before her for turning their backs on the trans and gay people in NYC suffering the most. She's saying that despite the fact STAR had almost nothing, and faced the worst violence from the state, that they were still fighting to help the trans AND cis unhoused and incarcerated people of color left behind by the most privileged. And still the Gay Pride organizers didn't want to let her onstage to ask people to actually help gay and trans people stay alive.

Despite her pain and rage at the cruelty of this supposed community, she ends with the invitation: "Come and see people at STAR House on Twelfth Street, the people that are trying to do something for all of us, and not men and women that belong to our white middle class club."

In 2024, STAR is long disbanded and both founders have passed on, but their work continues on with STARR (the Strategic Trans Alliance For Radical Reform), The Sylvia Rivera Food Pantry and Marsha's House.

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