(CNS News) The taxpayer-funded Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery has added a photo of a transgender sex worker to its "Struggle for Justice" civil rights exhibit.
The photograph depicts Sylvia Rivera--described as having been a "trans woman sex worker"--along with her partner Julie Murray and activist Christina Hayworth. The photograph was taken at a rally prior to the 2000 Gay Pride Parade in New York City.
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