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Season 1: Episode 1: Sylvia Rivera — Part 1

Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

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The Stum War: A Drag Queen's Story

The Stum War wasn't a bar for drag queens, Ray Rivera says. "It was the first time that I had even been to freakin' Stum War," he tells CNN's Eric Marcus. On this tape you'll hear me call Sylvia Ray, which was the name she was going by at the time. Where is Eric Marcus? tape one, side one.

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