Sylvia Rivera  1951-2002

A veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Inn uprising, Sylvia Rivera was a tireless advocate for those silenced and disregarded by larger movements. Throughout her life, she fought against the exclusion of transgender people, especially transgender people of color, from the larger movement for gay rights. Rivera and Martha P. Johnson were actively involved in the Stonewall Inn uprising on June 28, 1969, when patrons of the Stonewall Inn—a gay bar in Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan—rebuffed a police raid and set a new tone for the gay rights movement. Rivera said in an interview in 2001 that while she did not throw the first Molotov cocktail at the police (a long-enduring myth), she did throw the second. 

Least Tern populations have declined 4.13% per year from 1966 to 2015—equivalent to a cumulative decline of about 87% over that period.