Discover and connect with these Pride leaders who helped make our country strive to be a fair and equal place
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Sylvia Rivera
Born in 1951 to Venezuelan and Puerto Rican parents
Participated in the Stonewall Inn riots in 1969
Started the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) House with Marsha P Johnson in 1971
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Frida Kahlo
Born in 1907 in Mexico
Disabled as a child by polio and was hit by a car at 18, leaving her with medical problems and pain for the rest of her life
Used her art to explore societal questions on identity, gender, class, and race
Widely regarded as an iconic figure for Chicanos, the feminist and LGBTQ+ movements
Bayard Rustin
In 2013 he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Rustin fought for many causes, including racial equality and workers' rights and in the gay rights movement
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