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Sylvia Rivera: A Forgotten Hero of the Stonewall Riots

NPR
Published April 8, 2016 at 2:41 PM EDT

A profile of Sylvia Rivera, a Puerto Rican street queen rumored to have thrown the second Molotov cocktail at the Stonewall Riots.

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