In 1973, STAR House had moved to 640 E. 12th Street between Ave B & C, as Sylvia states in the footage from the 1973 Christopher St. Liberation Day in Washington Square Park.

The STAR House was a site for transgender and queer people of color who were often homeless. At STAR House, folks could find a safe place to sleep or enjoy a meal, while receiving peer-to-peer support from community activists such as Sylvia Rivera or Marsha P. Johnson. The house had many incarnations; In 1973, it was located at 640 E. 12th Street between Ave B & C. STAR was a community activist group and their acronym stood for Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. The group demanded justice for low income, homeless, and incarcerated transgender people of color, many of whom worked in underground economies performing sex work or drug sales. Sylvia and Marsha were longtime friends who wanted to help folks younger than them who were coming out and moving to NYC at the height of the Gay Power movement. STAR was one of the only activist groups at the time supporting community members in jail or detention centers. Their first public action was an occupation at Weinstein Hall at NYU in 1970. Service organizations such as the Ali Forney Center, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Queers for Economic Justice and Sylvia’s Place are a testament to the visionary work begun by STAR in the 1970’s.

(Thanks to Reina July, OutHistory, and various tumblr threads.)