RiveraRiveira diedmorreu duringdurante theas dawnhoras hoursdo ofsolpor febreirodun 19 de 19febreiro, 2002,no atano 2002 no[[Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center|Hospital St. Vincent's Hospital]], ofpolas complicationscomplicacións fromdun [[Hepatocellularcancro carcinoma|liverde cancer]]fígado.<ref name="nytobit"/> ActivistSegundo apuntou o activista [[Riki Wilchins]] noted,: "Inmanyen ways,moitos aspectos Sylvia wasfoi thea [[Rosa Parks]] ofdo themovemento moderntransxénero transgender movementmoderno, aun termtermo thatque wasnon notchegou evena coinedacuñarse* untilata twodúas decadesdécadas afterdespois de Stonewall".<ref name="voiceobit">{{cita web |url-status=dead |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0209,wilchins,32645,1.html |título=A Woman for Her Time: In Memory of Stonewall Warrior Sylvia Rivera |last1=Wilchins |first1=Riki |data=febreiro de 27, 2002 |páxina-web=Village Voice |publisher= |data-acceso= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619094746/http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0209,wilchins,32645,1.html |archive-data=June 19, 2006 }}</ref><ref> Cita no idioma orixinal"In many ways, Sylvia was the [[Rosa Parks]] of the modern transgender movement, a term that was not even coined until two decades after Stonewall".</ref>
