Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) was a transgender activist organization founded in 1970 by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. Marsha and Sylvia used to hustle the streets in order to keep their children from having to do the same to feed and shelter themselves. STAR was briefly renewed in the early 2000s initiating street demonstrations and other political activity before Sylvia's death in order to advance the fight for the transgender civil rights bill in New York City and New York State and to fight for self-determination for all gender non-conformists.
Both founders became activists during the 1969 Stonewall riots, but their work within the key gay rights groups ended when trans issues were deleted from proposed legislation in 1972.
STAR was created to advocate on behalf of homeless drag queens and runaways. They also created STAR House, a shelter for this population and pressed for trans inclusion in mainstream gay activist groups.[1]
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