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The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is a 2017 American documentary film directed by David France. It chronicles Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera , prominent figures in gay liberation and transgender rights movement in New York City from the 1960s to the 1990s and co-founders of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries .
Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992) was an American gay liberation [6] [7] activist and self-identified drag queen. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Known as an outspoken advocate for gay rights , Johnson was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969.
Victoria Cruz is an American LGBT rights and Anti-Violence activist and retired domestic violence counselor. A contemporary of activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, she is featured in the 2017 documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson. [1]
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute continues the work of the NJ native transgender activist by supporting Black transgender people.
Nov. 20 marks the 23rd Transgender Day of Remembrance — a day honoring transgender and gender non-conforming lives that were murdered in acts of violence. 33 transgender, gender nonconforming ...
Prominent non-binary Mexican activist Ociel Baena was slain with a razor blade, a local prosecutor said on Tuesday, in a suspected murder that has led to an outpouring of grief from members of the ...
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) was a gay, gender non-conforming, and transvestite street activist organization founded in 1970 by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, [1] subculturally-famous New York City drag queens of color.
After Milan's murder, Rivera reformed a transgender activist group, Street Trans Activist Revolutionaries (STAR). [26] Rivera cited the crime among the reasons to add a broad definition of gender to the New York City Human Rights Law. [27]