Frank Kameny & Sylvia Rivera are heroes, but their deaths reveal a sad truth about queer elders - LGBTQ Nation

Few people recognize their names, died impoverished; LGBTQ history not well-documented, fading from memory as contemporaries pass away.

Diverse LGBTQ pioneers like Hispanic Sylvia Rivera not widely remembered; many details of their final days unknown, guarded by protectively. Accessibility of LGBTQ history hindered by lack of inclusion in public school textbooks.

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