[DRAFT: program inactive] Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

Black and white photograph of Marsha P. Johnson, a Black woman wearing sunglasses, flowers and feathers in her hair, and an off-the-shoulder black dress. — Portrait of Marsha P. Johnson
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Sylvia Rivera (1951-2002), Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992), and Stormé DeLarverie (1920-2014) were three of the most influential women who participated in the Stonewall Uprising. Alongside their important role in the Stonewall Uprising, Rivera and Johnson were both important community organizers who worked to protect unhoused community youth on New York City’s streets. DeLarverie was a drag performer and lesbian advocate whose shout of protest - “Why don’t you guys do something?” - reportedly caused Stonewall’s clientele to band together to resist police violence.

The word Pride is superimposed against a photograph of a rainbow stretching over a hill.

DeLarverie, Johnson, and Rivera fought for the right to be proud of the people they were. Rivera said this in an interview about why she protested: "We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are."

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