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Stonewall veteran Sylvia Rivera leads the ACT-UP march past New York's Madison Square Park, June 26, 1994. The march was one of two held on Sunday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the riot at the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village bar that erupted in violence during a police raid in 1969. The incident is now considered the start of the gay rights movement. Virtually every reliable account credits Sylvia, a man who prefers the feminine pronoun, with a major role in the riot. (AP Photo/Justin Sutcliffe)

Inside Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera's Friendship

The two revolutionary LGBTQ+ activists developed a friendship while fighting for transgender rights in the 1960s and '70s.

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Comedian/actress Wanda Sykes performs onstage during the Moontower Comedy Festival at The Paramount Theatre on April 24, 2015 in Austin, Texas.

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Freddie Mercury performing

The Complicated Nature of Freddie Mercury's Sexuality

Harry Hay (L) brushes the cheek of his partner John Burnside at their home in San Francisco, July 2002

How Harry Hay Became a Pioneer of the Gay Rights Movement

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13 Powerful Marsha P. Johnson Quotes

Famous LGBTQ Individuals

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Ellen DeGeneres

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Billie Jean King

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American-born cabaret singer Josephine Baker (1906 - 1975) applies makeup with a powder puff in her dressing room before a performance at the Strand Theatre. A Western Union telegram from jazz singer Sophie Tucker is attached to the mirror. Baker has her hair pulled back into a fall and wears an evening dress, matching long satin gloves and a jeweled choker.

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The Inspiration for “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!”

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The Stonewall Inn in 2012

The Stonewall Inn: The People, Place and Lasting Significance of 'Where Pride Began'

The historic uprising at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village sparked the modern LGBT rights movement in the U.S.

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