In 1970, Rivera and Johnson co-founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR). Johnson had been Rivera's protector and friend since Rivera arrived in the City, and the two were close friends from 1961 through 1973. Rivera sometimes exaggerated her importance, purporting to have been active during the civil rights movement, the movement against the Vietnam war, second-wave feminist movements, as well as Puerto Rican and African American youth activism, particularly with the Young Lords and the Black Panthers but she could not prove her claims. Rivera's activism began in 1970 after she participated in actions with the Gay Liberation Front's Drag Queen Caucus and later joined the Gay Activists Alliance at 18 years old, where she fought for not only the rights of gay people but also for the inclusion of drag queens like herself in the movement. She was taken in by the local community of drag queens, who gave her the name Sylvia. Īs a result, Rivera began living on the streets in 1962, just shy of her 11th birthday and was forced to work as a child prostitute. Rivera was then raised by her Venezuelan grandmother, who disapproved of Rivera's effeminate behavior, particularly after Rivera began to wear makeup in fourth grade. She was abandoned by her birth father José Rivera early in life and became an orphan after her mother died by suicide when Rivera was three years old. But with these latest moves in anticipation of Pride Month, Discovery+ is throwing its brand down the sewer.Rivera was born and raised in New York City and lived most of her life in or near the city she was born to a Puerto Rican father and a Venezuelan mother. The streaming service is supposed to be a home for light, relaxing fare like cooking shows, HGTV and Animal Planet.
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Last week, Discovery+ released a trailer for another LGBTQUIA documentary series called " Generation Drag" that sexualizes children via a child drag queen contest. Milk, the first openly homosexual candidate to be elected to public office, was a notorious pederast who raped teenage boys. There are numerous other problems with the series, including the fact that it will honor Harvey Milk in one episode, “Queens’ Work Makes the Team Work,” on June 16. now thinks any historical figure who was unconventional or merely lived according to the mores of their time can be placed under the LGBTQUIA umbrella. The childish trailer for "Book of Queer" makes clear that this series is just another radical LGBTQUIA offense to common sense, rewriting history in an attempt to place dead heroes in service of their agenda. This failure to grasp same-sex friendship has been deeply damaging to the culture.
Unfortunately, the aggressive LGTBQUIA movement frequently distorts the nature of same-sex friendship and routinely places erotic connotations on heterosexual expressions of affection. In the 19th century, it was even commonplace for men to share beds because people in that period did not view such a practice between men as sexual. "But friendship, intimate, loving friendship like that between Lincoln and Speed, was not only accepted but encouraged as the long as the boundary against sexualization was rigidly and absolutely maintained," Strozier explained, describing 19th century mores. Historian Charles Strozier noted in a 2017 interview with left-wing publication The Daily Beast that Lincoln's relationship with his best friend Joshua Speed wasn't sexual as activists often try to claim. Related: Hollywoke Crumbling? April was a Disaster for Disney, Netflix & MoreĪnd the falsehood that Lincoln was homosexual is easily debunked, as even left-wing historians acknowledge. Catholic theology accepts the Biblical statement " male and female He created them." It is reprehensible that LGBTQUIA revisionists would pigeonhole an unconventional woman into their gender theories as an attempt to rewrite history. Saint Joan of Arc was not "non-binary." She was a devout Catholic.