STAR Manifesto
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries founded by Sylvia Rivera, Nova, and Marsha P. Johnson
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While participating in the occupation of Weinstein Hall at NYU, GLF members Sylvia Rivera, Nova, and Marsha P. Johnson led others in the founding of a new cell within GLF, “Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries” Their manifesto was later published in Come Out!
STREET TRANSVESTITES ACTION REVOLUTIOARIES,
The oppression against transvestite of either sex aries from sexist values and this oppression is manifested by hetrosexuals and homosexual of both sexes in form of exploitation, ridicule,harrassment,beatings, rapes, murders.
Because of this oppression the majority of transvestites are forced into the streets we have have framed a strong alliance with our gay sisters and brothers of the street. Who we are a part of and represent we are; a part of the revolutionaries armies fighting against the system.
1.We want the right to self-determination over the use of our bodies; the right to be gay, anytime, anyplace; the right to free physiological change and modification of sex on demand; the right to free dress and adornment.
2.The end to all job discrimination against transvestites of both sexes and gay street people because of attire.
3.The immediate end of all police harrassment and arrest of transvestites and gay street people, and the release of transvestites and gay street people from all prisons and all other political prisoners.
4.The end to all exploitive practices of doctors and psychiatrists who work in the field of transvestism.