S.T.A.R. AND THE S.T.A.R. MANIFESTO
“In the months following the Stonewall Rebellion in June 1969, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, along with a multiracial group of trans and queer people in New York City, would form S.T.A.R., the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. Their premise, outlined in their 1970 manifesto, was to take the lessons learned from Stonewall into the new decade, demanding the right to self-determination, the end to job discrimination and police harassment, free access to health care, food, and transportation, and the formation of a people's government. The manifesto presaged many demands still made by social movements today, and staunchly opposed ‘this government who spends millions of dollars to go to the moon, and lets the poor Americans starve to death.’”
—Nick