Sylvia Rivera was integral to transgender civil rights, but until recently she was all but erased from history. She was a loud voice for the most marginalized — trans people of color and those with low incomes, and it's been said that she was the first bottle-thrower at the Stonewall Rebellion. In 1970, Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson cofounded STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), a radical group that picketed, protested, and connected queens on the street with food and shelter. She died in 2002 but lives on as the namesake of today's vibrant Sylvia Rivera Law Project.