Star Gays: The Queer Astrology Archives Podcast examines the lives and works of queer artists, activists, and thinkers through the lens of their astrological birth chart. Each episode focuses on one individual from the archives and overlays their natal chart on their biography to draw connections between their life experiences and astrological influences. Join astrologer Elly Higgins each month to develop a deeper relationship with astrology and with a long lineage of queers who are making sense of their worlds through creative and analytical practices.
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Star Gays: The Queer Astrology Archives Podcast examines the lives and works of queer artists, activists, and thinkers through the lens of their astrological birth chart. Each episode focuses on one individual from the archives and overlays their natal chart on their biography to draw connections between their life experiences and astrological influences. Join astrologer Elly Higgins each month to develop a deeper relationship with astrology and with a long lineage of queers who are making sense of their worlds through creative and analytical practices.
Website: stargaysastrology.ghost.io
Happy Cancer Season!
On this episode of Star Gays we are going to do a deep dive into the chart of activist Sylvia Rivera. Rivera was a gay liberation and transgender rights activist as well as community organizer in New York City in the years immediately following the Stonewall riots.
We talk about Sylvia’s Cancer Sun and the archetype of the mother, we look at her Sun Uranus conjunction as both revolutionary and divisive, and we explore how that Mars-Saturn-Chiron T-square tells a painful but important story. (And more!!)
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You can find me on Instagram @ellyhigginsastro and Twitter @ehastrology.
Link to Sylvia Rivera’s chart: https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Rivera,_Sylvia
Links to sources used:
https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-15_60f0aa51e7765_sylvia-rivera-sylvia-riveras-talk-at-lgmny-june-2001-lesbian-and-gay-community-services-center-new-york-city-3.pdf
https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/gay-power-is-trans-history-street-transvestite-action-revolutionaries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Liberation_Front
https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/sylvia-rivera-part-2/
https://gaycitynews.com/exploding-the-myths-of-stonewall/
https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/sylvia-rivera-1951-2002-by-michael-bronski/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Transvestite_Action_Revolutionaries
https://www.workers.org/2006/us/lavender-red-73/
https://www.queerbible.com/queerbible/2017/10/8/interview-sylvia-rivera-by-leslie-feinberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera
https://www.biography.com/activists/marsha-p-johnson-sylvia-rivera-friendship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWwD_D0Guhs (Sylvia Rivera 20 min doc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI2bxUSRF7I (”I gave them their pride”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-JIOWUw1o (Y'all better quiet down)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Non-Discrimination_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_Act_(United_States)
https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/transy-house/
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2015/10/bebe-scarpinato-1951-activist-teacher.html
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2017/03/bubbles-rose-lee-194-activist.html#.XRGJndNKhE4
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Star Gays: The Queer Astrology Archives Podcast
Star Gays: The Queer Astrology Archives Podcast examines the lives and works of queer artists, activists, and thinkers through the lens of their astrological birth chart. Each episode focuses on one individual from the archives and overlays their natal chart on their biography to draw connections between their life experiences and astrological influences. Join astrologer Elly Higgins each month to develop a deeper relationship with astrology and with a long lineage of queers who are making sense of their worlds through creative and analytical practices.
Website: stargaysastrology.ghost.io
