[1][2] STAR was a radical political collective that also provided housing and support to homeless LGBT youth and sex workers in Lower Manhattan.

[6] The "Dance-a-Fairs" were booked with the Weinstein Hall Student Governing Association and it was later speculated that administration canceled the later dances because a gay organization was sponsoring the events.

[7] Over the course of the five day sit-in, during which time activists planned and networked extensively among themselves, Rivera first got the idea for what would eventually become STAR House.

[1] In addition to holding meetings and attending demonstrations during this time, STAR sought to provide housing for homeless trans and gay youth.

Members of STAR and Queens Liberation Front criticized GAA for ignoring protections for trans individuals, which they believed was an intentional move to ensure the bill's passage.

During the course of hearings for Intro 475, Rivera read a statement concerning the physical abuse of and denial of housing to trans individuals.

[10] Believing that gender nonconforming individuals, the STAR contingent, and drag queens in particular were intentionally being asked to stay at the back of the march and off the stage, Rivera and fellow queen Lee Brewster stormed the stage during feminist activist Jean O'Leary of Lesbian Feminist Liberation's speech.

"[11][12] Rivera took the microphone and criticized other gay liberationist activists for their assimilationist agenda, especially their lack of concern for their incarcerated brothers and sisters, who in seeking help from the community, "do not write women.

[7]: 159–160 For Rivera, O'Leary's comments represented a gay liberationist movement which had increasingly come to exclude queens and gender nonconforming individuals.

It came down to a brutal battle on the stage that year at Washington Square Park, between me and people I considered my comrades and friends.Following the June 20th, 2000, murder of Amanda Milan, Rivera briefly "resurrected" STAR on January 6, 2001, under the new name Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries.

The members of STAR wrote a manifesto in 1970 outlining the group's political ideology and demands, in which they identify themselves as a revolutionary army opposed to the system.

The Manifesto exhibits a socialist and third gender perspective, with its demands for free education, healthcare, food and social services for all oppressed peoples, and language that distinguishes the members of STAR from either the gay men's or the women's communities of the time.

[1] In 2013, Untorelli Press published Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries: Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle, a collection of historical documents, interviews, and critical analyses relating to STAR.