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Sylvia Rivera: A Forgotten Hero of the Stonewall Riots

Published April 8, 2016 at 12:41 PM MDT
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A profile of Sylvia Rivera, a Puerto Rican street queen rumored to have thrown the second Molotov cocktail at the Stonewall Riots.

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