This Way Out - S.T.A.R. Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries 1970
An historic tape found. WBAI NYC December, 1970, a gathering of S.T.A.R.: street transvestite action revolutionaries including Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. In the news this week, a new report finds LGBTQ+ people make up more than 12 percent of the U.S. population, while a federal judge again strikes down Texas’s drag ban. LGBTQ+ asylum seekers face heightened danger amid a migration crisis in Spain’s Ceuta, and South African activists mobilize against an anti-LGBTQ+ “family values” conference. And in Ireland, Cork opens the country’s first permanent LGBTQ+ museum exhibition, featuring a historic Rainbow Flag from San Francisco.