Rivera 's like, well, I don't play the drums, but maybe I can sing on the album.
Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, legendary mothers of the movement, transgender women, they went off and started the Street Transvestite Actions
Diego Rivera , of course, was a Communist, so it worked out well for Allen.
Diego Rivera being my hero as a mural painter, I said, well, let me try a little historical idea, and I went to EBSCO with the sketches.
Like Sylvia Rivera , for example, fighting for her sisters, and the white queer folks weren't doing anything about that.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Yes, my pleasure.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : OK.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : I want to say it was-- I can just check.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : OK.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Honestly, I loved-- they've all been so good.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : I know.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : I want to say-- I have a story about it.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Yo.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Yeah.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Honestly, I think I relate most with Laurens-Philip.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : I think--
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Yeah, I know.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Yeah.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Yeah.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : I mean, I don't know-- a fair amount.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Can I tell you something embarrassing?
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : I literally-- because I think I was just so focused on learning the words.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Yeah.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Exactly.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : A bunch of people, yeah.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : I know.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : I just told you my whole story.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : I can't think of a specific piece of advice that I've been given.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Exactly, like literally that.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Honestly, I think there's a duality to every human being, and it's really important to take that into consideration.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Yeah, for sure.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Yeah.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Hell, yeah.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : There's a lot of lines.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : It means so many things.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Oh, yeah.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Daveed used to come hang out with us all the time.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Oh, I mean, I've never really asked.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Yeah.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Totally.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : Yeah.
JOSH ANDRÉS RIVERA : I really want to be-- this isn't a musical, but I really want to be in "Streetcar Named Desire."
And Diego Rivera set out to paint this fantastic mural.
My name is Mark Rivera .
famous on the Rivera at the time -- and this is skin diving; they're not diving with tanks.
I do want to thank Paul Rivera .
Big stories with people like Sylvia Rivera , small stories like Wendell Sayers.
He loved the fact that Diego Rivera was portraying him this way.
What happened was that Diego Rivera donated it to the people of the Soviet Union.
But the Soviets didn't like Diego Rivera , because he wasn't considered a real Communist over there.